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Trump, Erdogan discuss Syria in phone call: Turkish presidency
ANKARA, Nov 1, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – US President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the Syrian conflict during a phone call on Thursday, the Turkish presidency said in a statement.
The statement was released not long after it was announced that Turkish and American troops had begun conducting joint patrols in the northern Syrian city of Manbij, which is controlled by a US-backed Kurdish militia that Ankara considers to be a terrorist group.
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