Washington Examiner: Pence will lead delegation to Turkey after Trump tells Erdoğan he wants 'immediate end' to invasion in Syria
Vice President Mike Pence said that he would soon be leading a delegation to Turkey and that President Trump spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and called for an “immediate end” to Turkey’s invasion of Syria.
Speaking outside the White House on Monday after the U.S. announced new tariffs and sanctions against Turkey, Pence said that Erdoğan initiated a phone call with Trump over the ongoing unrest in northern Syria. Pence said that Trump was firm in his calls for a ceasefire to be worked out.
“President Erdoğan reached out and requested the call, and President Trump communicated to him very clearly that the United States of America wants Turkey to stop the invasion, to implement an immediate ceasefire, and to begin to negotiate with Kurdish forces in Syria to bring an end to the violence,” Pence said.
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Update: Trump Sends Emergency Delegation to Turkey Amid Bloody Offensive in Syria (Washington Free Beacon).
WNU Editor: Why is President Erdogan requesting a phone call to President Trump after ignoring U.S. and other warnings from allies that a Turkish invasion of northeast Syria would be a disaster for all involved? Why the backtracking now? My guess is that the reality of the situation has hit him only now. There is zero international support for his military operation. His forces targeted U.S. military forces, an action that will not be forgotten by Washington or other NATO allies. Sanctions are being imposed on his country. He is being ostracized by the international community. His forces are now facing Russian/Syrian forces .... not U.S. forces. He does not have the resources to control a 30km buffer zone, and to repair the damage that his military has wrought on the civilians in this region. Bottom line. He has bitten more than he can chew, and he does not want to be responsible for fixing it.
4 comments:
This didn't take long. How humiliating. Will Erdogan survive this?
Yet everyone said Trump bad man, dumb, betrayed Kurds, condones massacres.
We are seeing the unfolding of a major change in the US. Exit time from Middle Eastern tribal conflicts. Now the locals get to confront each other and figure out the new costs of war with the US and its vast military protecting fewer and fewer nations over there.
Anon the M.East border is the Med .Sea.We're not leaving no matter how much you cry about it
The Wise man says; We'll see.
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