{"id":345284,"date":"2018-01-25T00:02:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T23:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-avoid-conflict-with-us-trump-warns-erdogan\/"},"modified":"2018-01-25T00:02:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T23:02:34","slug":"presstv-avoid-conflict-with-us-trump-warns-erdogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-avoid-conflict-with-us-trump-warns-erdogan\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018Avoid conflict with US,\u2019 Trump warns Erdogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>US President Donald Trump has cautioned his Turkish counterpart to avoid any measures in Syria that \u201cmight risk conflict\u201d between the two countries.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">According to a readout of the call with President Erdogan, Trump called on him to \u201cto deescalate, limit its military actions, and avoid civilian casualties and increases to displaced persons and refugees,\u201d the White House said Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cHe urged Turkey to exercise caution and to avoid any actions that might risk conflict between Turkish and American forces,\u201d the statement added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Erdogan, for his part, asserted that Turkish forces in Syria are aiming to get rid of &#8220;terrorist elements&#8221; and protect Turkey&#8217;s national security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Turkey has launched &#8220;Operation Olive Branch,&#8221; a new air and ground operation targeting the Afrin region, to oust the Kurdish People&#8217;s Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara views as a terror organization and the Syrian branch of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers\u2019&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/01\/24\/550077\/Avoid-conflict-with-US-Trump-warns-Erdogan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has cautioned his Turkish counterpart to avoid any measures in Syria that \u201cmight risk conflict\u201d between the two countries. According to a readout of the call with President Erdogan, Trump called on him to \u201cto deescalate, limit its military actions, and avoid civilian casualties and increases to displaced persons and refugees,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}