President Trump welcomed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House Tuesday amid increased tensions between the two allies. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports, then Jeffrey Brown speaks with Soner Cagaptay of The Washington Institute and Ali Cinar of the Turkish Heritage Organization about what is likely to come from meeting between...
... President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Donald Trump said the U.S. would re-establish its military and economic partnership with Turkey. He committed to backing Turkey's fight against the Islamic State group and a Kurdish insurgency known as the PKK, which the U.S., the European Union and Turkey ...
... effort. Turkey considers the Syrian Kurdish group, known as the YPG, a terrorist group because of its ties to the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party inside Turkey. The United States, the European Union and Turkey all agree the PKK is a terrorist organization. The Turks fear any weapons the U.S ...
ia, the groups that are fighting ISIS, and that -- they are linked to PKK. And that's a significant problem in U.S.-Turkey relations and on several other relations. But I think both sides will need Trump administration. Turks see Trump administration as a new opportunity. And they will ...
... the effect of rallying nationalist voters to his cause. It made them think that President Erdogan was the only person standing up for them and Turkey and for that reason they needed to vote for it. So he was very aware of what people thought of Turkey and he played ...
... children earn far less. BOY (through interpreter): In Syria, they are all dead or living with death. BOY (through interpreter): We are better off in Turkey compared to Syria. There's no fighting. We are comfortable here. AHMED MOHAMMED KHALAF, Syrian Refugee (through interpreter): I came to Turkey to work ...
... been wrecked by terrorism. But the impact of contagion is plain to see. And restaurant worker Levent Demir is hoping for an antidote. LEVENT DEMIR, Turkey (through interpreter): First of all, for things to get better, Syria is critical. Order needs to be restored in Syria, because Turkey is suffering ...
... up the proposal at a Turkish-U.K. forum in the southern city of Antalya, referring to the British departure from the EU and saying Turkey "might" hold a similar referendum after the April 16 vote to expand the powers of the Turkish presidency. The negotiation process for Turkey's ...
... available to meet and they got in touch with him," said Alptekin, who owns several businesses in Turkey. Among those officials, the documents said, were Turkey's ministers of foreign affairs and energy. Flynn's company did not name the officials but reported the two worked for Turkey's government ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is asking NATO allies to extradite hundreds of Turkish officers and soldiers who sought asylum following July’s attempted coup. And of all the allies resisting Erdogan’s appeals, Greece is under the most pressure. The two countries have a history of hostility and there are concerns that this could ramp it...
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