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Obama meets Erdogan amid talk of 'snub'
[NEWS24] US President Barack ObamaI think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... in Washington Thursday, the White House said, amid serious tensions over press freedom and the war in Syria. Having previously stated the pair were unlikely to hold sit-down talks, a decision widely perceived as a snub by Washington the White House said the two men had in fact met on the margins of a nuclear security summit. They discussed "US- ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... cooperation on regional security, counterterrorism, and migration," it said. The absence of a presidential meeting on Erdogan's trip to the US capital had been glaring. The two countries are meant to be close NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... allies in the thick of a fight against ISIS in Syria. But tensions have been stirred by Ankara's attacks on Kurdish Death Eaters, some of whom are seen by Washington as the best bet for tackling ISIS in Iraq and northern Syria. Turkey says the groups are linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought a long battle for Kurdish independence. Posted by: Fred 2016-04-03 |
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