5 minutes agoBBC: Erdogan dropped Trump's threatening letter into waste basket
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan has dropped President Trump's threatening letter to “waste export”, BBC sources have said. In the letter of October 9th, sent shortly after American troops were withdrawn from Syria, Mr. Trump told Mr. Erdoan: “Do not be strong. Don't be an asshole! ” Sources from the presidency [...]
In the letter of October 9th, sent shortly after American troops were withdrawn from Syria, Mr. Trump told Mr. Erdoan: “Do not be strong. Don't be an asshole! ”
Sources from Turkey's presidency have told the BBC the letter was “immediately rejected by Mr. Erdoan, Periscope follows.
On the day the letter was received, Turkey had launched its offensive in Turkey against Kurdish forces.
Make a good deal! You don't want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people, and I don't want to be responsible for destroying the Turkish economy. Trump further on paper.
Sources from the Turkish presidency claimed that “President Erdoan received the letter, but immediately rejected it and threw it into the trash basket. ”
President Trump has faced sharp criticism of the withdrawal of troops from Northern Syria, for which critics say the movement gives the green light to Turkish forces for military offensives against American allies, which even happened.
Many criticisms had also come to Trump from the president's own party, with the Republicans unpredictably too harsh to this policy shift. /Periscope
