WASHINGTON/ANKARA - At the 2012 opening of Trump Towers in Istanbul, real estate mogul Donald Trump sang the praises of Tayyip Erdogan, telling a mostly Turkish audience that their leader, prime minister at the time, was “highly respected” around the world.Since becoming the U.S. president, Trump has openly complimented Erdogan and his combative ruling style, calling him “a friend” and “hell of a leader.
Washington and Ankara hit a new crisis point last month over Syria, after Erdogan began a cross-border incursion against America’s Kurdish allies and upended the U.S. presence there. Months earlier, the United States was livid over Turkey’s purchase of Russian missile defense systems. The House has also voted in favor of a non-binding resolution recognizing as genocide the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians 100 years ago, for the first time, angering Ankara. Some lawmakers on Monday asked Trump in a letter to rescind the invitation to Erdogan.
Erdogan’s communications director Fahrettin Altun later said, “we have serious challenges in our relations with the US... yet none of these challenges are impossible to resolve.”
CiwanSerfiraz1 Well, at least Drumpf is consistent. He'll swallow as long as he's getting a 'reach around ' while he gulps.
Come on Reuters, we all know your masters are going to take us into more never-ending wars, regardless of who`s in office.
That fondness that comes only from business interests.
Bullshit, Trump is fond of no one but Trump. He thinks he can con Erdogan.
For us it has already collapsed,is Gulen still living in Pennsylvania now? Did you support 987 babies murderers? Disgusting
I guess being held down and violated is remaining in a relations with someone🤷🏽♀️
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Besides the fact we're storing nukes there, right? But I'm sure if Trump made an enemy of him and put us at risk, he would be praised, right? Right? Haha
Dude is filling trump's hotel baby. Mo.momo. mo. MO. MONEEEY.
Good God! Turkey is an important NATO member, strategically vital to the long term stability of the region and currently home to ~3.5m (THREE AND A HALF MILLION!) Syrian refugees. Yet, you promote the whole strategic foreign policy in terms of “fondness for Erdogan” Abysmal take.
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Next thing you know, Trump will be sending roses and boxes of chocolates to Erdogan and giving Turkey most favored nation status. Gimme a break.
Yes Turkey loves America now since the $hitgibbon let them commit KurdishGenocide and released ISIS with friends like this we don't need enemies ImpeachAndRemoveTrumpNOW
Trump's fondness for dictators (not just Erdogan) leads him to disregard the best interests of the United States.
Turkey continues to bomb Syrian defenseless Kurds, and America forgets its promise Turkey has attacked the Kurds 190 times since the ceasefire
This is a pretty convoluted analysis of the situation, no other POTUS would get this kind of generous framing.
Fondness for his buildings in Turkey. His income.
Last time checked, Turkey is our NATO ally for almost a century. Any other questions?
NATO needs to be disbanded in favour of a new agreement that only includes European nations: No US. No Turkey. As is, the treaty puts European ideals at odds with those linked only by an obsolete and anachronistic one.
Nobody complained when Obama was his friend and was giving him money but now it’s a problem got it
AbdulBillowAli Erdogan is not a man to be mess with. ❤️ 🇹🇷 🇸🇴
It’s a disgrace he’s allowed in the US . The mans a dictator and human rights abuses under his regime are rife
Of course he has towers there , erdogan is a dictator
Erdogan acts the way you deserve and you called it 'combative'.
and u conveniently forgot sanctions trump put on turkey..and the fact that turkey took refugees in a war against assad supported by USA Israel Europe
HayfordWill fuck.
Remember when that Turkish P.O.S. allowed his bodyguards to attack protestors in OUR country on OUR soil?
Since DT becoming President, the Left Wing media has gone off the rails... propaganda much?
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Erdogan just landed to DC, now he is going to visit his friend in White House
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