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Does the US trust Turkey?

Turkey’s position in the struggle against the Islamic State will determine whether the West will treat it as a friend or a suspect.
 U.S. Marines move into position with umbrellas as rain falls during a joint news conference between U.S. President Barack Obama (C) and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) in the White House Rose Garden in Washington, May 16, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES  - Tags: POLITICS)   - RTXZPE2

The German newspaper Der Spiegel has discovered that Turkey, a NATO ally, was the target of US, UK and German espionage. In its August 2014 report headlined, “A Two-Faced Friendship: Turkey Is ‘Partner and Target’ for the NSA,” Der Spiegel scrutinized hundreds of thousands of pages of National Security Agency (NSA) documents leaked by Edward Snowden​.

There was no German apology, but instead, a distinction between “friend and ally,” implying that Turkey is an ally but not a friend.

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