Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom Barack Obama once described as a “close friend,” no longer appears to enjoy that status. Under President Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkey, one of the most prominent and long-standing members of NATO, is running out of friends in the West.
The Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington-based think tank with close ties to the Obama administration, highlighted this fact in a recent report that urges the United States to deploy its considerable leverage in the pursuit of a new policy. The report, authored by Michael Werz and Max Hoffman, …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
