Turkey’s President Erdoğan met with Vladimir Putin of Russia in the Russian city of Sochi on Tuesday. Their conversation is likely to determine the future of the Turkish military incursion into its neighbor, Syria. Turkey claims to be fighting terrorists, but their main opponents, the Kurds, accuse the Turks of planning ethnic cleansing. The World’s host Marco Werman speaks with Turkish diplomat, Ceylan Ozen Erisen, consul general in Boston.
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