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Michael Flynn and other advisers to Donald Trump's campaign were in contact with Russian officials and others with Kremlin ties in at least 18 calls and emails during the last seven months of the 2016 presidential race, current and former U.S. officials familiar with the exchanges told Reuters.

An American pastor who was arrested in Turkey last year and whose release has been demanded by U.S. President Donald Trump is accused of delivering special sermons to the Kurdish people and having links to the movement of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen.

The United States has provided assurances that weapons to be provided to the People's Protection Units (YPG), a Syrian Kurdish group Ankara sees as a terror organization, will only be used to liberate Raqqa from jihadists and not against Turkey, according to Ankara.

Turkey has called on the United States to appoint a new coordinator of the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to replace Brett McGurk, accusing McGurk of supporting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its Syrian affiliate, the People's Protection Units (YPG). 

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley will make her first trip overseas this week as Washington's envoy to the United Nations, traveling to Jordan and Turkey to focus on the plight of Syrian refugees.     

Haley will meet with government officials and representatives of non-governmental organizations and UN agencies during the visit from May 19 to 25.

The United States will be beating a path to Turkey's door regarding upcoming moves in Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said after a meeting with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump in Washington on May 16, noting that Turkey cannot be excluded from the Syrian table.

"Turkey cannot be excluded as a decision-maker," Erdoğan told journalists at the Turkish Embassy in Washington.

President Tayyip Erdoğan had two main expectations from his May 16 meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.

There was an unpleasant surprise waiting for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Washington before he stepped into the White House to meet U.S. President Donald Trump. The Washington Post, one of the U.S.'s most prestigious newspapers, had published an op-ed by guest writer Fethullah Gülen titled, "The Turkey I no longer know." 

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan encouraged approximately 40 international investors he met during his visit to the U.S. on May 15 and 16 to intensify investments in Turkey, a written statement from the meeting's coordinator, the Investment Support and Promotion Agency of Turkey (ISPAT), said on May 17.      

Firing FBI Director James Comey is already coming back to haunt President Donald Trump.