Obama, Turkey’s Erdogan Meet in Seoul on Syria, Iran
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President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed ways to press Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step aside, including non-lethal assistance to the opposition and getting Iran to stop supporting Assad’s regime.
Following a one-hour and 45 minute meeting between the men, Obama said he and Erdogan are “very much in agreement” on the need for a process to transition to a legitimate government in Syria, after months of deadly violence by Assad’s regime to quash anti-government protests.