Nowadays, there is heavy diplomatic traffic between Turkey and the United States. Following U.S. National Security Adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster's visit to Istanbul over the weekend, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is expected to be in the Turkish capital Ankara on Thursday. Meanwhile, the Turkish and American defense ministers will reportedly hold talks in Brussels later this week.
In retrospect, this neo-medieval order did not emerge by happenstance or as a result of sporadic developments, but as a result of a deliberate, flexible and long-term regional transformation strategy conducted by the U.S. and its interlocutors.
With some minor changes in its policies on Gülen and the PYD, Washington can easily fix its ties with Ankara
The neo-medievalism in regional geo-politics enforces passing alliances and unlikely groupings in several areas in the Middle East
Barzani is likely to discover that he committed an existential mistake when the chain reactions from his drive for independence begin to emerge