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Bolton departs Turkey without meeting with Erdoğan

by Daily Sabah

ISTANBUL Jan 08, 2019 - 12:00 am GMT+3
National Security Adviser John Bolton (AP Photo)
National Security Adviser John Bolton (AP Photo)
by Daily Sabah Jan 08, 2019 12:00 am

U.S. President Donald Trump's National Security Adviser John Bolton is preparing to leave Ankara after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan denied his requested meeting.

Erdoğan earlier in the day slammed statements Bolton made that Washington's condition for a troop withdrawal from Syria is that Turkey protects the PKK's Syrian affiliate People's Protection Units (YPG).

Commenting on the development, Erdoğan told reporters that Presidential Adviser Ibrahim Kalın is Bolton's Turkish counterpart. The two held a meeting on Syria at the Presidential Complex in Ankara earlier on Tuesday. The president said his busy schedule prevented him from meeting Trump's adviser on Tuesday, but if it had been necessary, they would have met.

Kalın told members of the press on Tuesday afternoon that the president did not promise a meeting with Bolton and it was not included in the schedule for the visit. He said the issues at hand were discussed with Bolton during his time in Ankara.

Erdoğan said at the Justice and Development (AK Party) Party's parliamentary group meeting on Tuesday morning that Bolton's comments on the YPG were unacceptable, and that Turkey could not accept the U.S.' stated condition.

Bolton said Sunday that the U.S. military withdrawal from northeastern Syria is conditioned on defeating the remnants of Daesh terrorist group, and on Turkey assuring the safety of fighters allied with the United States — the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is dominated by the YPG terrorists.

Bolton and Kalın had a productive discussion regarding the United States' decision to withdraw from Syria, spokesperson for the U.S. National Security Council Garrett Marquis said after the meeting Tuesday morning.

Marquis added in a statement that the two sides had identified further issues for dialogue and that the U.S. looks forward to ongoing military-to-military consultations.

U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford and James Jeffrey, the U.S. special representative for Syria and the special envoy for the anti-Daesh coalition, also attended the meeting that lasted a little over two hours.

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