WASHINGTON — President Obama will consult about the Paris terrorist attacks with world leaders in Turkey this weekend as the annual gathering of presidents and prime ministers from the world’s largest economies there is poised to become an urgent summit meeting on confronting extremism.
The president boarded Air Force One on Saturday afternoon for a 10-day trip to Turkey, the Philippines and Malaysia, a day after a series of simultaneous attacks in Paris prompted President François Hollande of France to tighten the nation’s border controls and mobilize the military. Before leaving, Mr. Obama convened a meeting of his National Security Council to review the latest intelligence on the attacks, officials said.
