Insight Turkey
Insight Turkey
Challenging ideas
On Turkish politics and International affairs

Author

Luke Coffey

Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation, United States
Luke Coffey
Start Small and Think Big to Rebuild the U.S.-Turkey Relationship
July 2, 2020
The U.S.-Turkey bilateral relationship has been key to the success of NATO and the transatlantic community. However, due to various policy disagreements U.S.-Turkey relations are at a new low. As with all relationships in life, the U.S.-Turkey relationship ebbs and flows and requires hard work, patience, and understanding. This is why policymakers from both sides should not be ready to throw away seven decades of close cooperation for seven or so challenging years in the bilateral relationship. Instead of looking for the silver bullet to solve the major problems, policymakers need to focus more on smaller confidence building measures to rebuild the relationship.

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