U.S. plan to arm Kurdish militia casts shadow over Trump-Erdogan talks
By Orhan Coskun and Daren ButlerANKARA (Reuters) - Angered by a U.S. decision to arm Kurdish YPG fighters in Syria, Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan heads to Washington this week for talks with Donald Trump seeking either to change the president's mind or to "sort things out ourselves".Trump's approval of plans to supply the YPG as it advances toward the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa, just days before his first meeting with Erdogan, has cast a shadow over Tuesday's planned talks between the
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