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President Trump’s Oct. 9, 2019, letter to President Erdogan of Turkey

Updated Oct 16, 2019 at 6:39 PM EST

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President Trump’s Oct. 9, 2019, letter to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey in which Trump lays out his opposition to Turkey’s operation into Northern Syria and threatens to destroy the Turkish economy if Erdogan was found to be responsible for “slaughtering thousands of people.”