(RTTNews) - The United States has warned Turkey that its position on Israel and Iran could jeopardize its chances of obtaining American weapons, a British news report said on Monday. President Barack Obama is reported to have told Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan when he met the latter at the G20 summit in Toronto that Ankara had failed to act as an ally after it voted against fourth round of sanctions against Iran, which the U.N. Security Council adopted on June 9, the Financial Times said quoting an unidentified administration official.
Ankara had then argued that Tehran should be given a chance to carry out a nuclear fuel-swap deal, which was brokered by Turkey and Brazil.
Obama has warned Erdogan that Turkey risks not getting some of the weapons, including U.S.-made drones to combat the Kurdish separatist group, it wants from the U.S. unless it improves relations with Israel, the official said.
Turkey wants to buy American drone aircraft to attack separatist rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has bases in the mountains in the north of Iraq near the Turkish border, after the U.S. military withdraws from Iraq at the end of 2011, the Financial Times said.
Obama also asked Erdogan in June to tone down criticism of U.S. ally Israel for the May 31 naval raid by the latter on a Gaza Strip-bound aid flotilla in which nine Turkish citizens were killed, the paper said.
Relations between Turkey and Israel were nosedived after Israeli naval commandos raided the flotilla of six ships loaded with aid materials trying to break the crippling blockade of the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave.
