Posted on 12/25/2018 2:43:32 AM PST by familyop
“While nothing definite is being planned, the President is open to a potential meeting in the future,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement...The Turkish presidency said Trump and Erdogan agreed during a phone call on Sunday to coordinate to prevent an authority vacuum from developing as the United States withdraws from Syria...Turkey’s foreign minister said last week that during a meeting with Erdogan in Buenos Aires several weeks ago, Trump said he was working on extraditing Gulen. A senior White House official later said that during the Argentina meeting, Trump did not commit to handing over Gulen to Turkey.
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Erdogan is a bas****. Don’t go Mr. President. Turkey scr**** us during the Gulf War. They are NOT our friend.
But Turkey is getting friendlier with Russia, so Turkey must be our friend. Right? ;-D
Relations between Turkey and the Russian Federation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey
http://www.mfa.gov.tr/relations-between-turkey-and-the-russian-federation.en.mfa
[5-ton load of irony and sarcasm there.]
This was back in 2016, and Turkey is no longer cozy with the rebels in Syria.
What the Restored Turkey-Russia Relationship Means for the Middle East
https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/what-restored-turkey-russia-relationship-means-middle-east
Turkey, Russia deepen ties amid troubled relations with West
April 2, 2018
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-turkey-russia-ties-20180402-story.html
Erdogon is a true Islamic believer. In other words he has that special kind of insanity that makes for a truly evil leader.
Put an embassy in Jereuselem first.
Erdogan is a bas****. Don’t go Mr. President. Turkey scr**** us during the Gulf War. They are NOT our friend.
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I just wanted to repeat your important message.
Maybe Trump can convince Erdogan to release the thousands of completely innocent people that Erdogan put in prison after the fake coup d’état?
President Donald J.Trump is a very confident and competent player of multi-dimensional chess. Why should he not go?
Erdogan is a better player than Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi? Just keep the cameras on and rolling the whole time, with an accurate translation coming out all through the meeting.
Trump is equally at ease sitting down with greatest of allies as he is with deadly enemies, who have sworn to take him down.
Trust the Force.
Cuz Erdogan is a piece of sh**. We send reps to these people....not the President.
Is Syria destined for a carving up, long term?
With Turkey, the Kurds, and the Saudis (representing as well Israeli interests) all getting a slice?
If that’s the case, Iran would get a big slice.
Trump is the greatest statesman the world had known in centuries.
He has a greater grasp of strategy than anyone living. He is at the very least, 3 moves ahead of his opponents at every turn.
If Trump goes, it will be to secure strategic objectives, those that may not be apparent until months, years, even decades after the visit.
Unlike our idiotic short sighted politicians, Trump doesn’t deal in days, he deals in epochs.
I am a Trumpian. I support the President but this move with Turkey’s dictator seems, and I say seems very bizarre as Erdogan is a dictator who will now surely kill all the Kurds in that region a la’ 1916. Trump’s move is indeed puzzling. Anybody understand the geo-strategic added value here?
And let me guess: Continued refusal to recognise the Armenian Genocide is part of whatever deal gets made?
Erdogan is no friend of the US. He is in fact an enemy of all that is right and good. He would install an Islamic caliphate in all of Europe and the Middle East.
We should do everything possible to undermine him and expel his country from NATO.
He wooed lil’ Kim into behaving, Mexico is housing the caravan, so who knows what he can get out of Erdogen?
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