US-Turkish relations are often fraught and uneasy, it feels like Ankara and Washington are mutually suspicious of each other, but are also in an alliance with one another. Turkiye is a member of NATO and in a geostrategic important position from the perspective of the United States, while the US is an important ally and trading partner for Ankara. How should we understand the complexity of US-Turkish relations? This book aims to offer us a historically informed perspective charting Ankara and Washington’s turbulent relationship starting from the late Ottoman period in the 19th century and ending with Russia-Ukraine war in 2022. Kilic Bugra Kanat argues that one of the issues with existing studies on US-Turkish relations tends to focus only […]
