Trump to speak with Erdogan about ‘bringing peace to the mess I inherited’ in Middle East
President Donald Trump tweeted that he’ll be speaking with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday to discuss “bringing peace to the mess I inherited in the Middle East.”
The president’s tweet comes a day after Erdogan spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at Sochi to try to find a solution to end the fighting in Syria.
Will be speaking to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey this morning about bringing peace to the mess that I inherited in the Middle East,” Trump tweeted Friday morning. “I will get it all done, but what a mistake, in lives and dollars (6 trillion), to be there in the first place!”
The president did not specify which countries his discussions would focus on, or his overall policy goals for such a call.
His reference to $6 trillion appears to be related to a Nov. 8 Wall Street Journal story on a new study from the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs, which calculates that the cost to U.S. taxpayers for the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as conflicts in Pakistan and Syria is about $5.6 trillion.
Source:politico.com