Turkey to tell Trump to keep to promises on Kurdish fighters

Turkey's president says Syrian Kurdish fighters have failed to vacate areas along the Turkish border despite agreements with Russia and the United States and says he will raise the issue with US President Donald Trump. Speaking Tuesday before departing for Washington, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would also give Trump documents listing terror attacks allegedly carried out by Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the US-backed Syrian Kurdish-led force.

Turkey wants US officials to arrest Abdi. Turkey reached truce agreements with Russia and the United States last month that halted a Turkish offensive in Syria and forced Syrian Kurdish fighters to retreat from the Turkish border.

However, Erdogan said: "Neither Russia nor the United States has been able to clean (northern Syria) of terrorist organizations within the time they promised."