Pence Meets Erdogan to Urge Halt to Turkey’s Syria Offensive

Pence Meets Erdogan to Urge Halt to Turkey’s Syria Offensive
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meets with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey on Oct. 17, 2019. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Presidential Press Office/Handout via Reuters
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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence met President Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey on Thursday, Oct. 17, on a mission to persuade him to halt an offensive against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria, but Turkish officials said the action would continue regardless.

Turkey launched the offensives after President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of American forces from Northern Syria.