http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/world/asia/obama-erdogan-turkey-coup-syria.html 2016-09-05 09:58:49 Obama Meets Erdogan in Bid to Patch Up Differences With Turkey At the Group of 20 meeting, he gives his full backing to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and pledges to help bring the plotters of a failed coup to justice. === HANGZHOU, China — Mr. Obama’s comments, after he met with Mr. Erdogan before a He said nothing about Mr. Erdogan’s crackdown after the coup, in which “This is the first opportunity that I’ve had to meet face to face with President Erdogan since the terrible attempted coup,” Mr. Obama said, facing the Turkish leader across a long table. “We’re glad you’re here, safe, and that we are able to continue to work together.” He papered over the fact that Turkey’s interests The Kurds are trained and equipped by the United States, which views them as critical in the military campaign against the Islamic State. But Mr. Erdogan fears they are trying to create an unbroken Kurdish corridor just south of Turkey’s border with Syria. The Syrian Kurds have links to Turkish Kurds, who have been fighting his government. Mr. Erdogan said it was important for the United States and Turkey to fight against all terrorist groups, not just the Islamic State. He mentioned the acronyms of two Syrian Kurdish groups. “We have to embrace the same stance against all terrorist organizations around the world,” he said. “Our hope is never to see a belt of terrorism, a corridor of terrorism emerging in or around our region.” Still, Mr. Erdogan was more conciliatory to Mr. Obama than he had been toward Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. when Mr. Biden traveled to Turkey last month. Mr. Biden apologized for not having visited sooner, but Mr. Erdogan sat stone-faced, complaining that Mr. Gulen used his home in Pennsylvania as a base to destabilize the Turkish government. On Sunday, Mr. Erdogan did not repeat those claims. He merely said that the Turkish government planned to submit additional legal evidence against Mr. Gulen to the Justice Department, which will recommend to a federal judge whether to extradite him. Mr. Erdogan noted that the Justice Department had sent officials to Turkey to investigate the case. Earlier in the day, Mr. Obama held his first meeting with Britain’s new prime minister, Theresa May. He reassured her, as he had her predecessor, David Cameron, that