川普即將會晤埃爾多安

A week after U.S. President Donald Trump sparked anger in Turkey by authorizing arming of Syrian Kurds, he is hosting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks Tuesday at the White House with an expected focus on that dispute, as well as the wider conflict in Syria.

The U.S. sees the Kurdish force, the YPG, as a key part in the fight against Islamic State and the effort to oust the militants from their de facto capital in Raqqa. But Turkey considers the YPG terrorists because of their links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party that has been waging a three-decade insurgency inside of Turkey.

Erdogan called the decision to provide U.S. arms "contrary to our strategic relations to the U.S."

But he said last week ahead of the trip that he views his visit to Washington as "a new beginning in Turkish-American relations."川普總統授權爲敘利亞庫爾德人提供武器，引發土耳其憤怒一週後，他星期二將在白宮接待土耳其總統埃爾多安並舉行會談，預計會談將集中在這一爭端以及敘利亞衝突。

美國認爲敘利亞庫爾德武裝“庫爾德人民保衛軍”是打擊伊斯蘭國並把該極端組織趕出其自稱的首都拉卡行動中關鍵的組成部分。但是土耳其認爲“庫爾德人民保衛軍”與庫爾德工人黨有關聯，因此是恐怖組織。庫爾德工人黨在土耳其國內已經進行了30年的反叛活動。

埃爾多安稱，美國向“庫爾德人民保衛軍”提供武器“與我們和美國的戰略關係背道而馳”。

不過，他上週啓程赴美前表示，他把即將對美國進行的訪問視爲“土美關係的新開端”。