Erdogan says Turkish relations with US not 'healthy'

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that his country’s relationship with the United States was not “healthy.”

"I cannot say that a healthy process is running in Turkish-American ties,” Turkish broadcaster Haberturk quoted him as telling Turkish journalists on the margins of the UN General Assembly.

“It is my hope that, as two NATO countries, we should treat each other with friendship, not hostility,” Erdogan said. “But the current trajectory does not bode well.”

Ankara’s standing in Washington has soured over Turkey’s military campaign against Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria, its deteriorating human rights record, Ankara’s gas exploration in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and an ongoing US court case against a Turkish state-owned bank.