The U.S. and Turkey Go Their Separate Ways

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recently said what many analysts have long been thinking:

The relationship between Turkey and the United States has reached a “crisis point.”

• By Sinan Ciddi
• Stratfor

The two countries’ strategic partnership has been increasingly rocky as Washington and Ankara take diverging approaches to the Syrian civil war.

But more than protracted policy disagreements, the decline in U.S.-Turkish relations owes to a fundamental loss of trust.

Visits by key U.S. government personnel — including Tillerson and national security adviser H.R. McMaster just…

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