How Big Is Turkey’s Stick? #TurkeyUS

The strained relationship between Turkey and the U.S. appears unlikely to improve any time soon.

• Semih Idiz
• Sigma Insight Turkey

There is simply too much of a backlog of unresolved issues for the situation to change for the better.

The visit to Ankara by the high level delegation, headed by President Donald Trump’s national security advisor John Bolton, did little to ameliorate tensions between the two capitals.

To the contrary, it seems to have aggravated the…

The atmosphere was already sullied before the visit when Bolton remarked in Israel, where he was prior to moving on to Turkey, that they would ensure Turkey does not attack the…

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