Administrations decision to withdraw u. S. Troops from Northern Syria. Good afternoon, everyone. I want to welcome you all to todays meeting on u. S. Turkish relations, the shifting nature of two nato allies. I am currently the director of the International Security program at george mason university, and it is a great pleasure too preside over todays discussion on the topic that i i think is particularly compelling. So, in our topsyturvy world where we write love letters to authoritarians and publicly disparagee our allies, its kind of interesting to think where does the u. S. Turkey turkish relations in the spectrum from how we treat allies and authoritarians. It seems to fit into every category or maybe none coming and maybe we will figure ou out today how special is the case of u. S. Turkish relations. Its of course been a tumultuous relationship, one where the executive branch and congress dont always see eye to eye. Is it fundamentally a Security Partnership or do we have a stake
In 1979 cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies. This is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon and welcome to the washington institute. Im rob the executive director and im delighted to welcome all of you to this very special event. Before i begin if i can please ask everyone to take your iphone or samsung or whatever and turn them on a silent because we are broadcasting live on cspan one. Please watch your language, speak in clear tones so people around the world can hear us today. You are free to tweet as much as you like because we are eager to get the message of todays discussion out far and wide. It is not often that one can time the publication of eight new book so proficiently to an International Event or its not one often one can arrange an International Referendum to be timed perfectly with the publication of a new book. As it turns out, we have today, this confluence of events. W
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