Max Hoffman
(Associate Director, National Security and International Policy at Center for American Progress, USA)
Copyright: Center for American Progress, USA (https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/reports/2019/03/21/467518/responding-turkeys-purchase-russias-s-400-missile-system/) posted at RIEAS web site (www.rieas.gr) on 24 March 2019.
The United States and Turkey have been at odds for at least six years, driven by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s descent into autocracy; his assertive brand of Turkish nationalism and anti-American rhetoric; and repeated clashes between the two nations over how to handle the Syrian civil war.1 This prolonged crisis in relations between the two NATO allies is now entering a new, decisive phase. Read more