Turkey - Obama Presidency Oral History Turkey Index / Locations Transcripts William Burns ...day on a previously scheduled trip—to Turkey , and then after consultation wit... Anne Patterson ...the refugee flows into Germany and Turkey , and what it did to the chancellor... Samantha Power ...had the same view. Whereas Qatar and Turkey taking the view that politica... ...kids, Syrian refugee kids living in Turkey or Jordan, whether they get to go t... ...they're Syrian, they're likely to go to Turkey , to Lebanon, to Jordan. And so wha... ...In the case of the Syrians in Turkey , they didn't speak the language, s... ...Turkish over the life of their time in Turkey , but that took some time. And so ther... ...be able to do is to tell the leaders of Turkey , Jordan, Lebanon—and I'm focusing o... ...weapon attacks], and into 2014, as Turkey and other countries began to feel lik... ...refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey , saying, “We're giving up on goin... Show more... Ryan Crocker ...overseas tours, his last one, Izmir, Turkey —that's where I graduated high school... ...I could tell you when I crossed from Turkey , picked up by the Peshmerga... Brett McGurk ...were killed. We then went to the G20 in Turkey right after that, and then I went righ... ...happened. So, I remember, we flew to Turkey for the G20 and immediately was wit... ...a real problem. But as the underlying Turkey -PKK [Kurdistan Workers' Party... ...the conversations with Erdoğan and Turkey were quite constant. I mean, we wer... ...had not mainly because of concerns with Turkey . So we had a debate about this. Give... ...concern was that if we did do it, what Turkey 's reaction might be, and we didn'... Show more... Colin Kahl ...would be empowered, that actors like Turkey and Qatar would be empowered. And ther... ...in the counter-ISIS fight like Turkey and Jordan. And then managing th... Martin Dempsey ...militarily capable. So we were—and Turkey is a NATO ally. So you had the NAT... ...And it put us at cross-purposes with Turkey , quite remarkably. But truthfully, i... Kenneth Roth ...This was true in Egypt as well. In Turkey . I just wondered the extent to whic... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the Republican Opposition Republican Opposition go to the Chicago Chicago go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice