Al Jazeera: Erdogan, Trump consider setting up 'security zone' in Syria
Two leaders discuss situation in Syria over the phone amid growing tensions over the fate of US-allied Kurdish fighters.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, have discussed the situation in northern Syria over the phone amid rising tensions over the fate of Kurdish fighters in the war-torn country.
The conversation on Monday came a day after Trump threatened on Twitter that he would "devastate" Turkey's economy if its forces attacked the US-backed Kurdish fighters, who helped Washington in its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group.
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