US Willing To Provide Turkey With Military Aid In Its Fight Against Syria

Turkish defense minister meets US envoy for talks on Idlib

Newsweek: U.S. Willing to Supply Turkey With Military Aid In Its Fight Against Syria, White House Says

The White House is willing to offer some military assistance to Turkey to assist an insurgency against neighboring Syria, which has received support from Russia and Iran, a senior U.S. diplomat said Tuesday.

James Jeffrey, who serves as both the State Department's special representative for Syria and the presidential envoy to the fight against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) told reporters in Turkey's southern border province of Hatay that the Turkish forces "mainly use our equipment, we want to make sure the equipment is ready when they need to use it," according to Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency.

"We're willing to provide—for example, the President [Donald Trump] mentioned this—ammunition," he said, Reuters reported.

Both outlets also cited David Satterfield, Washington's ambassador to Ankara, as saying that the Trump administration was also studying a Turkish request to send Patriot surface-to-air missile systems.

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WNU Editor: He has a point .... The US shouldn't support Turkey's reckless moves in Syria (Willis Krumholz, Defense Priorities).

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