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By
Guy Taylor - The Washington Times - Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson will attempt to lower the temperature on increasingly heated tensions between the United States and
Turkey on Thursday, traveling to Ankara at a moment of clashing military strategies between the two
NATO allies in neighboring
Syria.
Regional analysts say
Mr. Tillerson is unlikely to offer anything of substance to appease Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s outrage over
Washington’s vow to continue backing Kurdish forces in
Syria that Ankara claims are “terrorists.”
The spark for the sharp downturn in relations is
Turkey’s 3-week-old military campaign against the U.S.-allied forces in the northern Syrian Kurdish enclave of Afrin, with Mr. Erdogan and his aides saying the Turkish army’s offensive will expand despite the presence of U.S. military special forces in their path.
U.S. officials say
Mr. Tillerson’s stop in Turkey — part of a week-long trip that includes visits to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Kuwait — shows how “seriously” he takes the Erdogan government’s concerns. But analysts note the Trump administration still has not appointed an ambassador to Ankara and is showing no sign of yielding to Turkish demands relating to American backing of the Kurds. The Syrian Kurdish forces have proven a critical ally in the war against Islamic State militants who once held a broad swath of eastern
Syria.
“The administration is pretty much holding the line that
Turkey’s military intervention in Afrin is a distraction and that the U.S. is not going withdraw,” said Aaron Stein, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East.
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