After Trump Vows to Arm Syrian Kurds, the Next Move Is Erdogan’s<br />Mr. Erdogan also sharply criticized the Trump administration’s decision in remarks quoted by Turkish news media,<br />and said he hoped it would be "reversed as soon as possible." Analysts believe Mr. Erdogan could now seek a quid pro quo in return for swallowing the American decision to work ever more closely with the Kurds in Syria.<br />On Wednesday, Mr. Erdogan’s prime minister, Binali Yildirim, added another warning:<br />that arming the Kurds could have "consequences" for the United States and a "negative result." He did not go into detail, promising only that Mr. Erdogan would elaborate when he meets President Trump at the White House next week.<br />Mr. Erdogan could likely count on the backing of the dominant Kurdish faction in northern Iraq, which controls Iraqi Kurdistan<br />and has a difficult relationship with the main Kurdish groups in Turkey and Syria.<br />"Erdogan looking the other way as Trump moves to take Raqqa" with the Syrian Kurds, while Mr.<br />Trump looks the other way, or even helps behind the scenes, as Mr. Erdogan strikes in Iraq.<br />Iraq said that If he keeps telling everybody that he could do something in Iraq, I tend to think he could do something in Iraq.<br />Turkish said that I think this could be the basis of the Trump-Erdogan deal,<br />While it would do little to prevent the Kurdish autonomous areas inside northeast Syria<br />from consolidating, it would isolate those cantons from Kurdish areas in Iraq.<br />Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, said on Wednesday<br />that "every weapon" that goes to the Syrian Kurdish group is "a threat against Turkey." Taking on the Syrian Kurds more forcefully would be difficult.
