there is a number of issues that have caused quite a lot of conflict between the us and turkey, including the us s support of the ypg, the syrian militants that the us has armed in the war against isis, and of course, and very pertinent to this discussion, turkey s ties with the akp, the ruling justice and development party s ties with hamas. and so trying to get turkey to reduce those ties, to use any influence it might be able to have in order to again secure the release of hostages, to prevent the conflict from spreading, that s very much what i think secretary blinken is trying to achieve. now of course there is also this issue of the accession of sweden to nato that turkey has been blocking, so that was certainly an issue that the secretary was looking to push today, and of course turkey wanting something in exchange for that, is looking for the us government to approve the sale of f 16 fighter jets to turkey and president erdogan has explicitly linked those issues together.
to get turkey on board. initially, turkey had taken a very measured response to the attacks in terms of the language that the president was using and not necessarily taking a very condemnatory tone. however, that s changed quite a bit and i think the us is very much trying to secure turkey s corporation as a key player in the region. how influential do you think he is? we will hear from him shortly. how important is turkey plasma relationship with the us how important is turkey s relationship with the us and how much influence does antony blinken have there? it is a very tense relationship, there is a number of issues that have caused quite a lot of conflict between the us and turkey, including the us s support of the ypg, the syrian militants that the us has armed in the war against isis, and of course, and very pertinent to this discussion, turkey s ties with the akp, the ruling justice and development party s ties with hamas.
there is a number of issues that have caused quite a lot of conflict between the us and turkey, including the us s support of the ypg, the syrian militants that the us has armed in the war against isis, and of course, and very pertinent to this discussion, turkey s ties with the akp, the ruling justice and development party s ties with hamas. and so trying to get turkey to reduce those ties, to use any influence it might be able to have in order to again secure the release of hostages, to prevent the conflict from spreading, that s very much what i think secretary blinken is trying to achieve. now of course there is also this issue of the accession of sweden to nato that turkey has been blocking, so that was certainly an issue that the secretary was looking to push today, and of course turkey wanting something in exchange for that, is looking for the us government to approve the sale of f 16 fighter jets to turkey and president erdogan has explicitly linked
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