The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative
Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other
shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org.
May 16, 2017

Trump Meeting with Turkish President at White House Today
---------------------------------------------------------

President Trump is meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
today at the White House. Today's meeting comes amid tension between
U.S. and Turkey over the Pentagon's arming of the Syrian Kurdish
militia. During today's meeting, Trump and Erdogan are not expected to
discuss the deteriorating human rights situation inside Turkey, where
nearly 50,000 people have been arrested, 150,000 public and private
workers have been fired, and more than 150 journalists have been
imprisoned, since last summer's failed military coup.


.