ISTANBUL—Turkey has dispatched top officials to Washington to defuse a series of bilateral spats with the U.S. that have exacerbated tension between the two NATO allies and pushed the Turkish currency to record lows.
The officials plan to meet American counterparts starting Wednesday and discuss ways to resolve the issues, top among them being the fate of an American pastor and an escalating trade dispute, according to Turkish officials. The delegation is led by Turkey’s new deputy foreign minister, Sedat Önal, one of the...