Trump Envisions Expanded Trade Ties With Turkey

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says the U.S. and Turkey are poised to expand trade between the two countries.  Trump is set to meet later Wednesday in the Oval Office with  Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan (REH’-jehp TY’-ihp UR’-doh-wahn). Trump says he thinks that trade between the two NATO allies can quickly increase to about $100 billion.  U.S. goods and services trade with Turkey totaled an estimated $24 billion in 2017.  But right now, relations between the two countries are at their lowest point in decades. Turkey’s decision to buy a Russian  air defense system has angered the U.S. and other NATO allies.  Trump says the meeting will also cover Turkey’s incursion into northeastern Syria to fight Kurdish forces that have been U.S. allies in the fight against the Islamic State group.