Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a meeting in Belgium, July 11, 2018 (Photo: AFP/VNA)

Ankara and Washington have argued bitterly about the trial in Tuesday of a US pastor accused on terrorism. Turkey’s currency plummeted and the US and Turkey are imposing tariffs on each other.

The same day, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar told US special envoy James Jeffrey that Turkey wants the Kurds to leave Syria as violence escalates in Idlib province and Russia resumes airstrikes in northern Syria.