President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Monday he saw "great potential to substantially expand" economic development between the United States and Turkey, after threatening on Sunday to "devastate Turkey economically if they hit Kurds," conflating "Kurds" with the terrorist PYD/YPG, a confusion that Turkey has repeatedly criticized.
Trump, who spoke on Monday with Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan, also said they discussed "our last two weeks of success in fighting the remnants of ISIS (Daesh terrorists), and 20 mile safe zone" in Syria.
In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK -- listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU -- has been responsible for the deaths of nearly 40,000 people, including women and children.
The YPG and PYD are both Syrian branches of the terror group.
