MESOP TODAYS WASHINGTON NEWS COLLECTION / TURKEY & ERDOGAN
11 May 2017 – In striking criticism from a NATO ally, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, said he hoped the Trump administration would reverse its decision to arm a Syrian Kurdish militant group. |
Mr. Erdogan’s prime minister said that the move would have “consequences” and that Mr. Erdogan would elaborate on those in his meeting with Mr. Trump next week at the White House. |
In Syria, U.S.-backed militias claimed to have seized the town of Tabqa and the country’s largest dam from the Islamic State. |
- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/world/middleeast/trump-arm-syrian-kurds-next-move-is-erdogans-turkey.html?emc=edit_mbe_20170511&nl=morning-briefing-europe&nlid=73143833&te=1&_r=0
- http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-tabqa-idUSKBN1862E4