{"id":392280,"date":"2019-01-10T04:51:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T03:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-turkish-tensions-rise-over-syria-withdrawal-plan\/"},"modified":"2019-01-10T04:51:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T03:51:44","slug":"us-turkish-tensions-rise-over-syria-withdrawal-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-turkish-tensions-rise-over-syria-withdrawal-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Turkish tensions rise over Syria withdrawal plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>US-Turkish tensions rise over Syria withdrawal plan<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Bill Van Auken<br \/>\n    <br \/>9 January 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The crisis over US President Donald Trump\u2019s plan for the withdrawal of US troops from Syria escalated Tuesday after Turkey\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan refused to meet with a visiting US security and military delegation and then publicly denounced statements by Trump\u2019s national security adviser, John Bolton, as he was preparing to fly out of Ankara.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one should expect us to accept or swallow national security adviser Bolton\u2019s comments,\u201d Erdogan told members of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) in parliament\u2014and an audience on live television\u2014referring to demands that Turkey guarantee the security of the YPG Syrian Kurdish militia, which has served as the main proxy ground force for the US intervention in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Insisting that his government saw no difference between ISIS and the YPG, Erdogan declared, \u201cIf they are terrorists, we will do what is necessary no matter where they come from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that he had no need to meet with Bolton, when he could speak to Trump anytime on the telephone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough we made a clear agreement with US President Trump, different voices are emerging from different parts of the administration,\u201d Erdogan said. \u201cTrump\u2019s remarks continue to be the main point of reference for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bolton\u2019s delegation\u2014which included the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Dunford\u2014was relegated to meeting with Erdogan\u2019s spokesman and a group of deputy ministers. A scheduled joint press conference was abruptly canceled.<\/p>\n<p>After Bolton had left Turkey, Fahrettin Altun, Erdogan\u2019s head of communications, tweeted: \u201cI hope that he got a taste of the world-famous Turkish hospitality during his visit. Turkey\u2019s national&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/01\/09\/bolt-j09.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 US-Turkish tensions rise over Syria withdrawal plan By Bill Van Auken 9 January 2019 The crisis over US President Donald Trump\u2019s plan for the withdrawal of US troops from Syria escalated Tuesday after Turkey\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan refused to meet with a visiting US security and military delegation and then publicly denounced statements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}