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On the recordFebruary 24, 2015
I think we share that goal with Turkey, but I have not had in my conversations with the Turks the requirement that we take concerted action against Bashar al-Assad as the precondition necessarily for the Turks to have any greater role in the coalition to deal with ISIL.
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

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Menendez discusses the shared goals with Turkey regarding Syria and Bashar al-Assad.

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