The BBC is reporting that President Erdogan of Turkey threw the now infamous “don’t be a fool” letter from President Trump into the trash after reading it:

Turkish president Erdogan 'threw Trump's Syria letter in bin' https://t.co/oqv9rTLgCv — Dan McHardie (@mchardie) October 17, 2019

This was allegedly confirmed to the BBC from Erdogan’s office:

#Turkey President's office confirms to @bbcturkce that when President #Erdogan received #Trump's letter, he "thoroughly rejected it, threw it in the bin" and launched the #Syria operation the same day. His mind was already made up to move in; letter was reportedly the final straw pic.twitter.com/pHaiyF5skG — Mark Lowen (@marklowen) October 17, 2019

Well, this should make the Pence/Pompeo trip interesting: