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raise hell for anyone who suggested his forces should give it a break—and his Russian patron Vladimir Putin.
Putin invited Erdogan to Russia for a working visit not too far ahead and Erdogan—who nowadays appears to visit the Kremlin almost every month—accepted the invitation, the Kremlin said in a statement following the phone call. There was no such graciousness expressed towards the US, however, with Erdogan informing reporters he is reconsidering whether to visit the White House as arranged in November.
Getting back to the pressing business, Putin and Erdogan also discussed the need to avoid possible conflicts between Turkish and Syrian military units, the Kremlin statement added.
Also down the other end of the line for Erdogan on October 15 was his American patron, Donald Trump. The US Commander-in-Chief (now trying to demonstrate to the world that he can command events in northeast Syria despite having pulled out the 1,000 or so US troops who were stationed there, in the process abandoning and betraying Washington’s Kurdish buddies, not long ago instrumental in destroying Islamic State’s so-called Caliphate in Syria on behalf of Uncle Sam) had just held an apparently (puzzlingly) warm phone conversation with Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mazlum Kobane. He wanted to get the message over to Erdogan that he should steer clear of Kobani, a city by the Turkish border under the control of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) since 2012.
2.2​ ​Trump’s ultimatum letter to Erdogan is first of its kind in modern diplomacy history
Trump delivered the copies of the letter to the senators, who met with him in the White House to urge him to stop Erdogan’s Syria offensive, as well as media to prove that he is the boss and they do not need to worry on the eve of US Vice President Mike Pence’s October 17 visit to Ankara to sign a ceasefire deal in Syria with Erdogan.
8​ TURKEY Country Report​ November 2019 ​ ​www.intellinews.com