Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reportedly threw President Donald Trump’s letter in the trash upon receiving it
U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatening letter in which he urged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to not be a “fool” or a “tough guy” was not well-received, with Erdoğan on Friday condemning the message as undiplomatic and saying “we haven’t forgotten it.”
"President Trump's letter, which did not go hand in hand with political and diplomatic courtesy, has appeared in the media," Erdoğan said Friday during a news conference about the Syria-Turkey ceasefire deal, according to a translation."Of course we haven't forgotten it. It would not be right for us to forget it."
The October 9 letter demanded that Erdoğan call off his invasion of northern Syria, warning that he would be viewed as “the devil” in history if “good things don’t happen.” It came after Trump had already received bipartisan and widespread backlash for pulling U.S. troops out of the region, smoothing the way for the incursion.
“Let’s work out a good deal!” Trump penned. “You don’t want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people, and I don’t want to be responsible for destroying the Turkish economy — and I will.” Trump’s threats referred to sanctions the Treasury Department previously imposed on senior Turkish officials for the detention of an American evangelical clergyman.“For our relationship, there's no point to dwell on this letter,” Erdoğan told reporters on Friday."This is not a priority for us, but when the time comes, we would like it to be known that we will take the necessary steps.
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