WASHINGTON — President Trump is warning the Houthis against launching further deadly attacks against Saudi Arabia and suggesting that he may ask Turkey to help with the Iran-backed terror group.
Asked whether he would ask Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to hit the Houthis, Trump told a reporter: “I might do it.”
“I have a lot of respect for the president of Turkey,” Trump said Tuesday. “President Erdogan, I think, would do as I ask.”
Two days before, Trump said the US was weighing retaliatory attacks against the Houthis after the Yemen-based terror group fired on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, killing 12 including one American citizen.
More than 300 people were also injured.
