US and Turkey, a strained relationship of long-time allies
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Tensions have been growing between Turkey and the US since last month's failed coup. Turkey wants the US to extradite the exiled Muslim cleric it says was behind the attempt. It's also unhappy with America's alliance with Syrian Kurdish militias against the Islamic state. Guest host Barbara Bogaev explores what's at stake in this troubled relationship with a longtime ally.
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| 0:37.3 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. The Uneasy Alliance between Turkey and the U.I. Public Radio International. This is To the Point. |
| 0:41.6 | The uneasy alliance between Turkey and the U.S. |
| 0:47.6 | I'm Barbara Bogave, sitting in for Warren Only, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:51.5 | Turkey is a NATO partner and a key American ally in the Middle East. |
| 0:54.6 | At one point, President Obama even saw President Erdogan as a role model for Muslim leaders. Not anymore. Washington's been watching nervously as |
| 0:59.7 | Erdogan has turned increasingly autocratic. An anti-American sentiment in Turkey has snowballed in the wake |
| 1:05.5 | of last month's failed coup, which many Turks blame on an exiled Muslim cleric living in the U.S. |
| 1:11.3 | Vice President Biden was in Ankara yesterday to smooth overstrained relations, but can the |
| 1:16.2 | growing rifts be healed given these two nations clashing alliances in the fight against ISIS? |
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