Blinken meets with Turkey's Erdogan as Middle East tensions escalate
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Turkey and met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the U.S. hopes to Ankara will help calm tensions in the Middle East.
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Blinken and Fidan discussed the war and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as well as Turkey's process to ratify Sweden's membership of NATO, Turkey's foreign ministry said in a statement.
The Biden administration hopes to convince Ankara to influence other Arab states against entering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, seeking to prevent a wider and more costly war.
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