Bipartisan members of House want Trump to rescind his invitation to Erdogan.

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https://thehill.com/policy/defense/469893-bipartisan-house-members-call-on-trump-to-rescind-erdogan-invitation

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1. Democrats should boycott all events honoring this dictator.

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2. The invitation or its rescission aren't up to Trump

Need to address your concerns to the proper party.

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3. are American embassy staff and journalists still imprisoned??.......

article does not say!



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Bipartisan House members call on Trump to rescind Erdoğan invitation


https://thehill.com/policy/defense/469893-bipartisan-house-members-call-on-trump-to-rescind-erdogan-invitation


By Rebecca Kheel - 11/11/19 01:01 PM EST


A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is asking President Trump to rescind his White House invitation to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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The lawmakers also slammed Erdoğan’s “systematic rollback of democratic institutions in Turkey, concentrating all political power in his person, persecuting political opponents and peaceful protestors, and imprisoning journalists in shocking numbers.”

“His imprisonment of innocent American citizens and local staff from the U.S. Embassy is especially egregious,” they wrote.

Trump’s national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, said in an interview Sunday that Trump would confront Erdoğan about the S-400 purchase during the visit.

“We’re very upset about that,” O’Brien said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

“There’s no place in NATO for significant Russian military purchases,” O’Brien added. “That’s a message that the president will deliver to him very clearly when he’s here in Washington.”

Under a law known as the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, the administration is required to impose sanctions on those who do business with the Russian defense industry, but Trump has yet to levy sanctions on Turkey for the S-400.