CHICAGO
In a meeting he held with the US President Barack Obama in Chicago on Monday on the sidelines of the NATO summit, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said that the Syrian issue was one of the international community and it should not be viewed as a bilateral one.
Presidents Gul and Obama discussed the Syrian issue extensively in their meeting on Monday.
Obama told Gul that they had no doubt that the Syrian issue was an international problem.
Gul and Obama also discussed "Turkey-Israel relations" on Monday.
President Obama said that Turkey and Israel were two important allies of the United States and that the improvement in Turkish-Israeli relations would have a positive impact on the Arab Spring process.
On Israel, Gul said that Israel knew the steps they had to take and if they did take those steps, Turkey would act accordingly.
