extreme responses , rather than the sudden emergence of specific bigotries , this starts to make a lot more sense . VIII . What authoritarians want
Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Ankara for talks with Turkish leaders as Turkey launched a military operation to clear a Syrian border town of Islamic State militants . Wednesday 's visit comes at a difficult time for ties between the two NATO allies . Turkey is demandingcontact.commandorder.correspondencethat Washington quickly extradite a U.S.-based cleric blamed for orchestrating last month 's failed coup . The United States is asking for evidence against the cleric and asking that Turkey allow the extradition process to take its course . In Syria , Turkey is concerned about the growing power of U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces , who it says are linked to Kurdish groups waging an insurgency in southeastern Turkey .