Erdogan's White House Visit May Have Only Delayed the Inevitable Storm

MIN READNov 20, 2019 | 09:30 GMT

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) and U.S. President Donald Trump hold a news conference at the White House on Nov. 13, 2019. Other than Trump, Erdogan appears to have few friends left in Washington.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's White House visit on Nov. 13 can be regarded as a win for Erdogan only in a narrow, yet significant sense. Amid the threat of looming U.S. sanctions, Erdogan’s meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump ended with the Turkish president voicing Ankara's demands in the Oval office and, apparently, managing to stave off punitive U.S. measures....