Again convey this message to president carter got into the foreign minister today as have many other u. S. Officials we have always been clear with turkey that the weapons provided to the Syrian Democratic forces would be limited Mission Specific and provided on an incremental basis to achieve military objectives only we have long supported and will continue to support darkest democracy respect for the rule of law Judicial Independence and open press our source of strength and stability when turkey maintains its commitment to these principles it expands our potential partnership we support the government of turkey is right to bring the perpetrators of the two thousand and sixteen coup to justice it is important to handle these cases in a transparent and fair manner there respects human rights and fundamental freedoms. We continue to have serious concerns about the detention of local employees of our mission in turkey in about cases against u. S. Citizens who have been arrested under th