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At the 2012 opening of Trump Towers in Istanbul, real estate mogul Donald Trump sang the praises of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, telling a mostly Turkish audience that their leader, prime minister at the time, was "highly respected" around the world.
"He's a good man. He's just representing you very well," Trump said at the ceremony.

Senator Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has called on US President Donald Trump to cancel any invitation to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House until he commits himself to upholding democratic values.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Oct. 23 ordered sanctions on two Turkish ministries and three Turkish ministers be lifted following what he said was Turkey's vow to halt its operation in northeast Syria.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Oct. 16 on a bipartisan resolution opposing President Donald Trump's decision to pull back troops in northern Syria.

US Vice President Mike Pence and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have left for Ankara, where extraordinary talks will be held with Turkish President Recep Erdogan.

The two US diplomats will try to persuade the Turkish head of state to suspend the military operation "Operation Peace", which has been underway in northern Syria for more than a week.

A cross-party bill submitted to US Congress seeks to link Turkey's activities in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean to sanctions imposed by Washington earlier this week over Ankara's offensive in Syria, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) reported on Thursday.

US imposes sanctions on Turkey for military operation in northern Syria. The ministries of defense and energy are subject to restrictions.

The sanctions will affect three ministers - Defense, Foreign Affairs and Energy, and three other senior officials.

According to White House reports, talks on a $ 100 billion trade deal with Turkey will be terminated in the coming days.

US President Donald Trump on Monday demanded Turkey stop its military incursion in Syria and imposed new sanctions on the NATO ally as Trump scrambled to limit the damage from his much-criticized decision to clear US troops from Turkey's path.

Anger in Congress, surprise at the State Department and Pentagon, concern among allies and partners: Donald Trump's decision to abandon long-standing, bipartisan American support for the Kurds sparked a plethora of reactions, as the US president's erratic behavior becomes harder to follow, much less interpret.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the Ukraine inquiry a "silly gotcha game" on Saturday.
"This is what's wrong when the world doesn't focus on the things that are right, the things that matter, the things that impact real people's lives and instead you get caught up in some silly gotcha game."