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Blinken meets Erdogan as US's Kurdish allies are squeezed by attacks
12 December 2024 19:34 GMT
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after landing in Ankara on Thursday, a US official said.
According to a US official, Blinken headed straight into talks with Erdogan "in the VIP lounge" at Ankara's Esenboga airport.
Blinken was earlier in the Jordanian Red Sea resort of Aqaba meeting with King Abdullah II, as the collapse of the Assad government sparked a furious pace of regional diplomacy.
Jordan and Turkey are both US partners. But the latter, a Nato ally, is backing Syrian rebels attacking the US-backed Kurds in northeast Syria.