Turkish Vice President Yilmaz to represent Erdogan at 'coalition of the willing' virtual meeting

ANKARA/ISTANBUL

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz will attend a virtual meeting of the "coalition of the willing" group on behalf of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday, sources said.

The meeting, to be chaired by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, will focus on the outcomes of Monday’s discussions at the White House on Ukraine, which brought together US President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and European leaders.

The initiative is led by the UK and France, and envisages sending peacekeeping troops from a number of European and NATO countries to post-war Ukraine.

Trump on Monday said the leaders discussed security guarantees for Ukraine, and his administration began preparations for a meeting between presidents Vladimir Putin and Zelenskyy, and later a trilateral summit involving him.

The Washington meeting came after a Trump-Putin summit in the US state of Alaska aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.