[AlAhram] What is the future of Ankara’s increasingly fraught relations with Washington?
| “Put simply, the Turkish government views the United States as a strategic threat rather than an ally, and a growing majority in Washington have come to view Turkey the same way,” writes Nicholas Danforth in a report for the Brookings Institute. |
In his first presser since taking his post in Ankara over a year and a half ago, US Ambassador David Satterfield
...President Biden kept on one of the OrangeManBad’s ambassadors? Perhaps he’ll take care of accepting his resignation on a day that doesn’t have an 11:00:a.m. lid... dismissed Ottoman Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu’s "unfounded" allegations that the US had criminal masterminded the July 2016 coup attempt. "They’re not responsible statements from an ally and a strategic partner. And we regret them," he said, proceeding with an assessment of US-Ottoman Turkish relations.
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