Turkey's ambassador to Washington headed back to the U.S. yesterday, after a spat over the inauguration of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, the AFP (Agence France-Presse) website reports today (June 1, 2018).
Serdar Kilic left Ankara to resume his post after an absence of over two weeks from Washington. The absence was designed to convey Turkey's anger toward the U.S. for moving its Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Kilic is scheduled to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on June 4.
Turkey recalled its ambassadors to the U.S. and Israel last month as a protest, after dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire along the Gaza border on the same day that the U.S. celebrated the opening of its embassy in Jerusalem.
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