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I want to welcome you all to todays meeting on u. S. Turkish relations, the shifting nation unto alex. Im currently the director of the International Security director at george mason university. Its a great pleasure to reside over todays discussion on a topic i think is particularly compelling. In a world where we write love letters to authoritarians and we publicly disparage our allies is kind of interesting to think where does the u. S. Turkish relations it in the spectrum from how we treat allies and authoritarians. It seems to fit into every category or maybe none and were going to try to figure out how special is the case of u. S. Turkish relations. Its at the motionless relationship one with the executive branch does not always ci to eye. Is it fundamentally Security Partnership or do we have a stake in the democratic standing and if turkey is questioning and involving with moscow what should the United States to prove this is brought out even mentioning into Northern Syria in t
Letters to authoritarians and we publicly disparage our allies is kind of interesting to think where does the u. S. Turkish relations it in the spectrum from how we treat allies and authoritarians. It seems to fit into every category or maybe none and were going to try to figure out how special is the case of u. S. Turkish relations. Its at the motionless relationship one with the executive branch does not always ci to eye. Is it fundamentally Security Partnership or do we have a stake in the democratic standing and if turkey is questioning and involving with moscow what should the United States to prove this is brought out even mentioning into Northern Syria in the decision by the United States to withdraw troops from Northern Syria. There is just a lot going on in the u. S. Turkish relationship and im delighted we have three such excellent speakers to join us and try to make sense of this. The professor of International Relations at Lehigh University where he served for over a decade