Following is the message President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sent to President Donald Trump of the United States:
“Mr. President,
I wish the election held in your country may yield auspicious outcomes for the people of the friendly and allied U.S.
However the official election results may be, I thank you for the sincere and determined vision you set out during your 4-year term in order for the relations between Turkey and the U.S. to improve on the basis of shared interests and values.
As the further enhancing of the historical friendship as well as the partnership and alliance relations between our countries on this strong basis is the necessity of our mutual interests, I would like you to be sure that as Turkey we will make every effort to this end in the period ahead.
On this occasion, I would like to once again thank you from the bottom of my heart for your warm friendship that you have always displayed, and wholeheartedly wish the U.S. people peace and welfare.”