Trump is hosting Turkey's Erdogan to show off his dealmaking.

President Donald Trump invited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to come to Washington Wednesday to demonstrate his dealmaking prowess. Instead, the meeting is only going to further erode the already strained relations between the two countries. With Erdogan adept at speaking Trump’s language and the administration having no clear strategy for handling Turkey, the only deal Trump is going to get is a raw one.
Erdogan likely believes he can use this visit to persuade Trump to disregard mounting calls from Congress to hold Turkey accountable for its bad behavior.
The visit was announced just days after Trump’s infamous Oct. 6 phone call with Erdogan, after which the U.S. president declared he had pulled off a masterful piece of diplomacy by having Turkish troops replace American forces fighting the Islamic State militant group in Syria, a theater of war Trump had long wanted to leave. The White House visit was to be both a victory lap and an opportunity to rebuild a teetering relationship via this newly established goodwill.
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In fact, though, Trump merely cleared the way for Turkey to pursue a long-sought goal that had been thwarted by Trump’s predecessors: to move into Syria to eradicate Syrian Kurdish militias, which were a key American partner in reining in ISIS but seen by Ankara as an extension of its arch-enemy, the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party. After widespread anger at Trump over the withdrawal and the Turkish invasion that it abetted — including from many in his own party — the Oval Office parley has now been recast as an opportunity to show that Trump is in control of the situation and can elicit positive results from Erdogan.
The changes in tone from Washington led Erdogan to vacillate on whether to come to Washington, claiming he was too offended by Trump’s subsequent letter and tweets berating him over his assault on Syria followed by a vote of censure and threat of sanctions in Congress. But in the end, Erdogan likely believes he can use this visit to persuade Trump to disregard mounting calls from Congress to hold Turkey accountable for its bad behavior.