President Trump on warned his Turkish counterpart against sending troops to fight in Libya hours after the Turkish parliament voted to authorize such a move
Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed several “bilateral and regional issues,” according to a readout of the call released by the White House, as well as simmering tensions and ongoing instability in Libya that have been condemned by the top United Nations official there.
Erdogan and Sarraj recently signed a deal allowing Ankara to send military experts and personnel to the volatile region, the AP reported, and some in Turkey have argued that threats to the Libyan government could "spread instability to Turkey." Erdogan and Trump also discussed ongoing violence in Syria’s Idlib province along the Turkish border, where Syrian leader Bashar Assad’s forces have sought to retake one of the last rebel strongholds in the country. The weekslong offensive has sent hundreds of thousands of civilians fleeing north toward Turkey, prompting Trump to“The leaders agreed on the need for de-escalation in Idlib, Syria, in order to protect civilians,” the White House readout of Trump and Erdogan's call said.
The White House statement made no mention of whether the presidents discussed Turkey's campaign against U.S.-allied Kurds in northern Syria, which Trump paved the way for by withdrawing U.S. troops from the region this fall. The U.S. president later
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