Turkey is lobbying heavily to try to rekindle a once-promising relationship with the administration of President Barack Obama that has markedly deteriorated over the past year.
Back in 2009, Obama made Ankara his first stop in the Muslim world and held up Turkey as a model for bridging Islam and the West. Relations have since soured significantly, with the two countries at odds on a host of foreign policy issues ranging from Syria to Egypt to Israel even as Washington grows increasingly critical of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s crackdown on dissent.
