President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday said that they did not receive any demand regarding the transfer of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro to Türkiye, before the latter was captured by the United States over the weekend, APA reports, citing DS.
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was reportedly offered the option to leave office and go into exile in Türkiye before the U.S. military captured him in Caracas.
Speaking to reporters, Graham said Maduro “could be in Türkiye today, but he’s in New York,” referring to his current detention in the United States.
“He chose to defy President Donald Trump and the U.S. military, and he is in jail,” Senator Graham expressed.