Clashes at the Turkish Ambassador's Residence in Washington, D.C.

The Turkish President addressed a party meeting

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has departed from Ankara to Washington on Nov. 12 for his two-day visit to U.S. where he will meet with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. President Donald Trump held a phone call on Nov. 6, reaffirming their meeting in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 13. 

U.S. President Donald Trump on July 19 urged his Turkish opposite Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Twitter to help release an American pastor kept behind bars in Turkey since October 2017.

Two men pleaded guilty on Dec. 21 to felony assault in a street brawl in May near the Turkish embassy in Washington during a visit by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the United States Justice Department said.

A group of protesters, including at least two members of the People's Protection Units (YPG), entered a hall in New York where Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was delivering a speech, shouting slogans before they were ejected by U.S. security officials late on Sept. 21.

Relations between Turkey and the United States are "the closest we've ever been," U.S. President Donald Trump has said, as he praised President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for "running a very difficult part of the world."

Meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 21, Trump hailed Erdoğan's leadership in Turkey and said Erdoğan "has become a friend of mine."

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not claim that U.S. President Donald Trump apologized to him over a brawl involving Turkish security officers, Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın stated on Sept. 21.

"President Erdoğan didn't say President Trump 'apologized' to him but he said he was 'saddened' by what happened. That is the correct translation," Kalın said in a tweet.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said U.S. President Donald Trump told him that he was "sorry" about the brawl between the U.S. authorities and his security guards during a previous visit to the U.S. capital in last May.

On the same day as the Washington Post published an editorial "unwelcoming" Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan to U.S. soil and urging U.S. President Donald Trump to stop arms sales to Turkey, Trump thanked Ankara for hosting refugees fleeing from the civil war in Syria in his Sept. 19 speech at the U.N. General Assembly.