The uncertain future of U.S.-Turkish relations

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TURKEY’S TIGHTROPE DANCE
The uncertain future of U.S.-Turkish relations.
May 26, 2017

Robert Ellis
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Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who was recently in Washington in search of "a new era" in Turkish-U.S. relations, was also out with the begging bowl. At a meeting with 40 prominent U.S. investors, Erdoğan urged them to increase investments in Turkey and shared recent developments regarding Turkey’s investment environment and economic agenda. What he did not share was the increasingly repressive environment that Erdoğan himself has created in search of absolute power.

But the true nature of Erdoğan’s regime did not go unnoticed when his bodyguards attacked a group of demonstrators, which seems to be a constant feature of the president’s foreign trips. Senator John McCain even suggested that the U.S. should “throw their ambassador the hell out.” Once safely home, Erdoğan reassured the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSIAD) that the state of emergency, where he has ruled by decree since the failed coup last July, was no hurdle for business.

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President Trump’s approval of the Pentagon’s plan to supply weapons to the Kurdish militia in northern Syria has not improved U.S.-Turkey relations, and Trump’s invitation to President Erdoğan was intended to paper over the cracks. It hardly had that effect, and now Trump is beleaguered by the appointment of Robert Mueller as special prosecutor. Back home, Erdoğan is confronted by an increasingly divided and unstable Turkey.

There is a Turkish proverb: iki cambaz bir ipte oynamaz (two acrobats can’t dance on the same tightrope). What remains to be seen is whether one or both will fall off.


Turkey’s Tightrope Dance
 
Erodogan has in the past stated that he wants Turkey to lead the Muslim World in destroying Israel........kept in check by the rest of his gov't.........

Is Erdoğan’s end goal a caliphate? • AEI

In recent weeks, the organization regulating Turkey’s religious leadership — regulation that traditionally existed to prevent the type of radicalism espoused by the Muslim Brotherhood — has suggested that they should have more autonomy. Yesterday, Hizb ut-Tahrir, a radical group calling for the re-establishment of the caliphate, filled a sports stadium in Turkey’s capital of Ankara to press their demand:

Thousands of supporters of the Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir organization gathered in Ankara to discuss the re-establishment of the caliphate, just three days after holding an international conference in Istanbul to mark the 92nd year of the institution’s abolition, daily Cumhuriyet has reported… The opening speech of the conference, which was themed “Caliphate: An Imagination or a Reality that will be Realized Soon,” was delivered by Hizb ut-Tahrir’s Turkey media bureau head Mahmut Kar. In his speech, Kar pledged to re-establish the caliphate, contrary to the expectations of the “infidels….” “We are hopeful, enthusiastic and happy. Some 92 years after March 3, 1924, when the caliphate was abolished, we are shouting out that we will re-establish the caliphate, here, right next to the parliament,” Kar said.
 

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