Top US diplomat Tillerson, in Ankara, meets Turkish PM
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met Thursday morning with Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim in Ankara. They discussed recent developments in Syria, the war against Islamic State, and Turkey's repeated demand for the extradition of opposition leader Fethullah Gulen by the US. Brett McGurk, who is responsible for US military cooperation with the Syrian Kurdish militias fighting ISIS, is accompanying Tillerson on the trip. The secretary of state is scheduled to meet Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu later in the day.