A New Yorker cartoon reimagines Trump's October 9 missive to the Turkish president as if he were writing to Santa Claus.
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"Let's work out a good deal!" Trump said to Erdogan after Turkey invaded northern Syria earlier this week."You don't want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people, and I don't want to be responsible for destroying the Turkish economy – and I will." President Donald Trump speaks during a"Keep America Great" campaign rally at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on October 17.Tan wasn't the only Turkish diplomat to condemn the president's choice of words. Serdar Kilic, Turkey's current ambassador to the U.S., told the"I hope history will not record that letter," he said, later adding that"it lacks all the niceties, and it's void of any established practices in that regard.
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