President Donald Trump is moving ahead with his plans to host Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House next week while congressional efforts to sanction Turkey have stalled in the Senate. But two senators are pushing legislation that could ultimately force Trump to ban US arms sales to Ankara.
The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., laid the groundwork to do that today by introducing a seemingly innocuous resolution that would require Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to report on potential Turkish human rights abuses in Syria.
