{"id":2101,"date":"2017-05-16T22:09:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T22:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2017-05-16T22:09:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T22:09:40","slug":"trump-tries-to-reassure-erdogan-after-u-s-plan-to-arm-kurds-of-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/05\/16\/trump-tries-to-reassure-erdogan-after-u-s-plan-to-arm-kurds-of-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"TRUMP TRIES TO REASSURE ERDOGAN AFTER U.S. PLAN TO ARM KURDS OF SYRIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : Bloomberg<\/p>\n

By Margaret Talev<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump sought Tuesday to repair relations with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is alarmed about a U.S. plan to arm Kurdish fighters in Syria.<\/p>\n

Trump said he and the Turkish president would have a \u201clong and hard discussion\u201d as he welcomed Erdogan to the Oval Office for a meeting three days ahead of a Trump trip to the Middle East. Erdogan said the U.S. shouldn\u2019t work with the YPG Kurdish militia, a group Turkey considers a terrorist organization, that Trump plans to arm.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaking them into consideration in the region will never be accepted and it is going to be against the global agreement that we have reached,\u201d Erdogan said in a statement to reporters, through a translator.<\/p>\n

Read more at : https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2017-05-16\/trump-meets-erdogan-as-he-tries-calm-blowback-over-arming-kurds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sourced : Bloomberg By Margaret Talev President Donald Trump sought Tuesday to repair relations with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is alarmed about a U.S. plan to arm Kurdish fighters in Syria. Trump said he and the Turkish president would have a \u201clong and hard discussion\u201d as he welcomed Erdogan to the Oval Office… Continue reading TRUMP TRIES TO REASSURE ERDOGAN AFTER U.S. PLAN TO ARM KURDS OF SYRIA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1108,485,488],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-donald-trump","tag-erdogan","tag-kurds","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}