Erdogan, Trump consent to act mutually against Islamic State

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump concurred in a telephone call overnight to act mutually against Islamic State in the Syrian towns of al-Bab and Raqqa, both controlled by the activists, Turkish administration sources said on Wednesday.

The two pioneers examined issues incorporating a sheltered zone in Syria, the evacuee emergency and the battle against dread, the sources said. They likewise said Erdogan had asked the United States not to bolster the Syrian Kurdish YPG volunteer army.

Trump talked about the two nations' "shared duty to battling psychological oppression in every one of its structures" and respected Turkey's commitments to the battle against Islamic State, the White House said in an announcement, however it gave no further subtle elements.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a union of U.S.- upheld volunteer armies, began another period of its battle against Islamic State in Raqqa on Saturday.


Turkey, a NATO partner and part of the U.S.- drove coalition against Islamic State, has more than once said it needs to be a piece of the operation to free Raqqa however does not need the YPG, which is a piece of the SDF organization together, to be included.

Erdogan's relations with previous U.S. President Barack Obama were strained by U.S. bolster for the YPG state army, which Ankara views as a fear based oppressor association and an expansion of Kurdish aggressors pursuing an uprising inside Turkey.

The Turkish armed force and Syrian revolt bunches it backings are in the mean time battling Islamic State in a different crusade around al-Bab, upper east of the city of Aleppo. Ankara has griped in the past about an absence of U.S. bolster for that battle.

The workplaces of both pioneers said Trump had repeated U.S. bolster for Turkey "as a vital accomplice and NATO partner" amid the telephone approach Tuesday.

The Turkish sources said new CIA Director Mike Pompeo would visit Turkey on Thursday to talk about the YPG, and doing combating the system of U.S.- based Turkish priest Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey blames for coordinating a July overthrow endeavor.

Turkey has been baffled by what it sees as Washington's hesitance to hand over Gulen, who has lived in purposeful outcast in Pennsylvania since 1999.