"Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday denied reports that his US counterpart, Donald Trump, had offered to send former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to Turkey prior his arrest. Erdogan was leaving a meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party’s parliamentary bloc in Ankara, when he was posed the question by a reporter. “There is no such thing. Nothing like that has reached us,” the Turkish president responded. US media outlets had quoted American and Venezuelan sources involved in negotiations as saying that Maduro had rejected an ultimatum from Trump in late December to step down and leave Venezuela for Turkey. On January 3, the United States carried out a operation targeting Venezuelan military sites, which led to the arrest of Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores during a raid on a safe house in the capital, Caracas. US officials said more than 150 aircraft took part in the operation, which reportedly left at least 80 people dead, including Venezuelan and Cuban military personnel. Maduro and Flores were subsequently transferred to the United States, where they face charges of 'narco-terrorism'. "