Friday, November 24, 2017

Turkey FM: Donald Trump told Turkish counterpart that the US will stop arming YPG in Syria


Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says US President Donald Trump told his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the US will stop arming the YPG in Syria.

Ankara considers the YPG to be terrorists...but Washington has been working with the fighters in the battle against the Islamic State in Syria.

But, as our Washington correspondent Giles Gibson reports, there's not yet been confirmation from the White House:

IN: "Normally from the..."
OUT: "...this phone conversation."
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