US-TURKEY RELATIONS

If a minister of a foreign country visits Turkey or meets with a Turkish official, that is automatically and wrongly interpreted through the prism of Greek-Turkish relations.

Ankara’s geopolitical shift toward Moscow and the accompanying threat to the cohesion lies at the core of US-Turkey disputes.

President Joe Biden’s recognition in precisely articulated language of the Armenian Genocide reflects the birth of a new outlook that is not confined to the realm of geopolitics.

A year ago, while still a presidential candidate, Biden commemorated the 1.5 million Armenian men, women and children who lost their lives in the final years of the Ottoman Empire.

The exceptionally good personal relationship between Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, gave Ankara great leeway in charting its geopolitical moves and to harrass other NATO member-states and to ignore good neighbourly relations.

At a moment that Turkey is courting Tehran, what role will Ankara play in the strife between the US and Iran? What quid pro quo will it seek if Washington requests its assistance?