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NATO | Illustration: Erhan Yalvaç

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French President Emmanuel Macron told The Economist last week that NATO was "brain dead." He blamed the alliance's supposed problem on the lack of "coordination... of strategic decision-making between the United States and its NATO allies." Macron added that Turkey's actions were "uncoordinated," warning that NATO failed to monitor the actions of its members.
  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and U.S President Donald Trump (L) attend the third session of the G20 Summit on the second day at INTEX Osaka Exhibition Center in Osaka, Japan on June 29, 2019.
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    President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday announced his decision to visit Washington. He reached that decision following a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump, who invited him.
  • A general view of an armory found by Syrian National Army (SNA) is seen in Syria's Ras Al-Ayn town on October 30, 2019. According to Syrian National Army (SNA) the armory that also has US howitzers and mortars, belongs to PKK, listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey the U.S. and the EU, and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which Turkey regards as a terror group.
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    Turkish-American relations are experiencing the heavy burden of Washington's alliance with the People's Protection Units (YPG), as the YPG is the Syrian branch of the PKK terrorist group, which Turkey has been struggling against for the last four decades. This vision will not change any time soon despite Washington's denial of the PKK-YPG connection. There are many other significant obstacles to the normalization of Turkish-American relations but Washington's flirt with the YPG is the most controversial one.
  • U.S. President Trump (L) and President Erdoğan (R) talk while walking to attend the NATO Brussels Summit, Belgium, July 11, 2018.
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    Another important meeting in Washington between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to be held next week. The state of Turkish-American relations and the crises between the countries make this meeting more critical than any other to date between the two leaders.

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