Obama and Erdogan will meet to talk about EI and blow

Washington - US President Barack Obama and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will meet on Sunday to discuss recent tensions surrounding the failed coup d'état in Turkey and the fight against jihadist group Islamic State (EI ), said on Monday the White House.

The meeting between Obama and Erdogan will take place in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, where both will attend the G20 leaders summit, according to detailed national security deputy White House adviser Ben Rhodes told a news conference.

The US Vice President, Joseph Biden, visited Turkey last week, when he rejected his country had prior knowledge of the failed coup of July 15 and promised that Washington will cooperate in the extradition of the alleged mastermind of the uprising.

As for the campaign against EI, Rhodes detailed that the message that Obama wants to convey Erdogan is the importance of "being united" in the fight against the jihadists.

On Monday, the Turkish military intensified its offensive against Kurdish militias in northern Syria despite criticism from the United States, which they described as "unacceptable" these fights.

First, the Pentagon expressed "great concern" for those fighting between factions of the Free Syrian Army (ELS), supported by Ankara and Kurdish militias, which receive US air cover, and then Rhodes insisted that Obama's government "not supports "this Turkish offensive.

On the other hand, Rhodes anticipated that for now there is no bilateral meeting scheduled between Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin, but gave it for granted that both will dialogue "on the margins" of the G20 summit on issues such as the conflict in Syria and Ukraine .

After China, Obama will visit Laos and there plans to hold a bilateral meeting with the President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, sworn to office last June 30.

Duterte began a controversial war on drugs which received criticism from various organizations, including the UN, both the high number of dead as by what they consider fundamental rights and freedoms violations.

According to Rhodes, Obama will transmit Duterte their concerns about the human rights situation in the Philippines.