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December 23: How Donald Trump's Business
Ties Are Already Jeopardizing U.S. Interests
Donald Trump hasn’t been sworn in yet, but he is already making decisions and
issuing statements to world leaders that radically depart from American foreign
policy, all to the benefit of his family’s corporate empire. Because of this,
the next president of the United States is already vulnerable to undue influence
by other nations, including through bribery and even blackmail.
NATO ally Turkey considers the Kurdish fighters, known as the YPG, a terrorist
organization. But the YPG forms the main force to retake Raqqa, the Islamic
State militants' self-proclaimed capital and base of operations. Some in the
Pentagon have suggested giving the Kurds heavy weapons, including
rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns and heavy combat vehicles, but the Obama
administration rejected the idea.
Other options include sending more Apache helicopters into the fight, and
sending in more U.S. troops to help train Syrian forces.
October 12: Why Has Trump Stopped Turks From
Coming to America? ... On Sunday, the Trump Administration
suspended non-immigrant visas for Turkish citizens.
November 24: Trump tells Turkey's leader: US
to stop arming Syrian Kurds ... The United States will cut off its supply of
arms to Kurdish fighters in Syria, President Donald Trump told the Turkish
president on Friday, in a move sure to please Turkey but further alienate Syrian
Kurds who bore much of the fight against the Islamic State group.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/25/trump-tells-turkeys-leader-us-to-stop-arming-syrian-kurds.html
January 24: President Donald Trump warned
Turkey against expanding its military offensive against U.S.-backed Kurdish
fighters in northern Syria, telling President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that such
action could lead to direct conflict with U.S. forces, the White House said.
January 24: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
held a phone call late Wednesday with his U.S. counterpart Donald J. Trump to
discuss Operation Olive Branch in Syria's Afrin, which was launched against YPG
and Daesh terrorists.
February 8: “You cannot eliminate terrorists
with terrorists”, Turkey tells Trump ... Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
launched a tirade against opponents of his country’s military offensive against
the Kurdish-held Syrian enclave of Afrin on Thursday, saying he had even told
U.S. President Donald Trump that working with Kurdish militants was a bad idea,
state news agency Anadolu
said.
https://ahvalnews.com/afrin/you-cannot-eliminate-terrorists-terrorists-turkey-tells-trump
February
13:Turkey Is Out of Control. Time for the
U.S. to Say So.
November 4: Report: Saudi investigators
worked to remove evidence
Members of a team from Saudi Arabia sent to help Turkish authorities investigate
the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi worked instead to remove evidence of
the slaying, a senior Turkish official said Monday.
December 16:
Turkey says Trump working on extraditing wanted cleric Gulen
U.S. President Donald Trump has told his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan that
Washington is working on extraditing a U.S.-based Muslim cleric accused of
orchestrating a failed Turkish coup in 2016, Turkey’s foreign minister said on
Sunday.
December 21: President Donald Trump’s
decision to withdraw American troops from Syria was made hastily, without
consulting his national security team or allies, and over strong objections from
virtually everyone involved in the fight against the Islamic State group,
according to U.S. and Turkish officials.
Trump stunned his Cabinet, lawmakers and much of the world with the move by
rejecting the advice of his top aides and agreeing to a withdrawal in a phone
call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week, two U.S. officials
and a Turkish official briefed on the matter told The Associated Press.
https://www.apnews.com/ec2ed217357048ff998225a31534df12
