‘Only for the oil’: Amid tensions over Syria, Trump says he’s a ‘big fan’ of Turkey’s Erdogan by SeanDNaylor
Speaking to reporters earlier in the day in the Oval Office, Trump returned to a theme he has adopted in recent weeks, and in the process gave the impression that seizing Syria’s oil reserves was his main priority in that country.
“The mission is the defeat of ISIS,” said Rear Adm. William Byrne, vice director of the Joint Staff, at a Pentagon press conference Nov. 7. “The securing of the oil fields is a subordinate task to that mission.” “He’ll be coming back at some point in the not-too-distant future,” said Trump, who described Erdogan’s gesture as “a very nice tribute.”
Story continuesErdogan’s government was also upset by the House of Representatives’ landslide passage on Oct. 29 of a resolution recognizing the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as genocide.
Turkey’s acquisition of the S-400 “creates some very serious challenges for us,” Trump said. “Hopefully we’ll be able to resolve that situation.” In the run-up to the meeting of the two presidents, Trump administration officials and others were keen to play down the tensions between the two countries, while acknowledging that, as a senior administration official told reporters on a conference call the day before the visit, “there are irritants on both sides.”
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