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May 17, 2017

Trump Welcomes Turkey's Authoritarian President to the White House
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President Trump welcomed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the
White House Tuesday, praising the authoritarian leader and promising to
continue supplying Turkey with U.S. weapons. Erdogan praised Trump's
election victory as a "legendary triumph," while objecting to the
administration's decision to arm Syrian Kurdish forces in the YPG
militia. Erdogan also repeated his demand that the U.S. extradite
Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish dissident living in Pennsylvania whom Erdogan
blames for leading a failed coup attempt in 2016.


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