WASHINGTON - Deputy Chief of General Staff Gen. Ilker Basbug, who came to the United States to attend high-level joint defense group meeting, met on Tuesday with U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
Gen. Basbug visited Pentagon before attending the meetings which will be held in Williamsburg near Washington and met with General Peter Pace, U.S. Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Wolfowitz later attended the meal which Pace held in honor of Gen. Basbug.
Gen. Basbug and Wolfowitz took up important defense and security issues concerning Turkey and the United States.
(GC-AY) 18.11.2003