With all eyeballs split between Trump in Hanoi and Michael Cohen, Jared Kushner’s Middle East Tour has gone unnoticed. The president’s son-in-law met with Turkish President Recep Erdogan, who is not in a pro-American mood.
Erdogan thought he had secured a complete U.S. withdrawal from Syria, but no, administration hawks have succeeded to keep a force of 200 U.S. personnel in the country.
From Al-Monitor:
Private face time with Trump’s most trusted lieutenant, however, will have given Erdogan an opportunity to lobby on a number of files that are poisoning ties. These include Turkey’s unsuccessful attempts to have Pennsylvania-based imam Fethullah Gulen extradited over his alleged masterminding of the abortive 2016 putsch, continued US support for the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and US reluctance to join Turkey in going after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Source: Intel: Why Erdogan is keeping it ‘all in the family’ as he meets with Kushner
