Trump imposes sanctions on Turkey as Syria conflict intensifies

Written by Alan Rappeport and Michael Crowley (Reporting was contributed by David E. Sanger, Ana Swanson, Catie Edmondson and Katie Rogers.)

President Donald Trump said Monday that he was imposing sanctions on Turkish government agencies and officials in response to Turkey’s incursion into Syria, an invasion that he himself had cleared the way for by withdrawing U.S. troops.

Trump, under mounting political pressure to retreat from his earlier suggestions that the United States should remain uninvolved, also said he was halting negotiations over a $100 billion trade deal and doubling tariffs on imports of Turkish steel.