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Leela JACINTO

Fighter jets, quakes, NATO stakes: Are US-Turkish ties on a reset?

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, Turkey, on February 20, 2023. © Burhan Ozbilici, AP

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Monday came in the wake of the devastating earthquakes that have rattled the Turkish leader’s projection of his country as a regional hegemon. With Turkey turning into a recipient of generous US humanitarian aid, will Ankara play the role of Washington’s friend rather than foe?

Senator Bob Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey and head of the powerful US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, took the floor on December 19 to deliver a scathing inventory of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s domestic and foreign policy misdeeds.

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