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Saturday, March 17, 2018

Confrontation between Turkey and US set to continue

Confrontation between Turkey and US set to continue

Relations between Turkey and the U.S. have probably never been so tense.

What lies behind the worsening situation in Ankara-Washington ties? Is it a continuation of the March 2003 syndrome, when tension peaked around the U.S. invasion of Iraq? Are the Americans trying to punish Turkey and the so-called “Eurasianists” here? Or is it possible to say the “caliphate” hopes of a certain someone, the hallucinations of “Sunni solidarity” are at the root of this discord? Or is the perennial perception seeing Kurdish demands for fundamental rights as an “existential threat” at the root of this discord?

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