US President Donald Trump met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at White House on Tuesday. US media reported that the main two topics on Tuesday’s agenda were Trump’s decision to send weapons to Syrian Kurdish forces of YPG and Turkey’s request for the extradition of Fethullah Gulen, a US-based Muslim leader. Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania since 1999, is accused by the Turkish government of having planned the failed military coup attempt in 2016. “We will support Turkey in the fight against ISIS and the PKK and we will ensure that they have no safe quarter in the region,” Trump said at Tuesday’s joint news conference with Erdogan. Trump assured Erdogan that his country would provide military equipment to Turkey to eliminate ISIS and PKK militants. Trump was one of very few would leaders who called Erdogan to congratulate him on winning the referendum, which was preceded by widespread arrests of his opponents and was so narrowly won that many questioned its legitimacy.
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