Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the foundation for defense of democracies. I am the Senior Vice President for research, and it is terrific to see familiar faces in the room. We are looking forward to our event this morning as we address the syrian impasse, what is turkeys and game, and how does this impact washingtons policy . I will keep it short so we can jump right in. First, a few housekeeping items. Being livent is streams, video recorder, and also being broadcast on cspan. I encourage guests in the audience in attendance and viewing at home to join in on the conversation via twitter f dd. This is the time where i ask you to set your telephones to stun. We do not want our guests to be interrupted. Now i am very pleased to hand over the conversation to my colleague, a research analyst, Merve Tahiroglu. This is her first moderated event, so we are pleased to have you do this, and take it away. Thatarcus thank you for ms. Tahiroglu thank you for that. Three weeks ago the turki
The man hoping to unseat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised to restore US-Turkey relations that soured over a host of issues, including Ankara's rights record.
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Turkey’s watershed elections, on which the future of its crippled democracy hangs, are due to be held on May 14. Opinion polls continue to point to a tight race, making the outcome of the presidential and parliamentary polls difficult to call. Election security remains a big concern and there is little doubt that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will stop at little to win. The largest pro-Kurdish bloc, however, dealt him something of a blow this week declaring it would not field its own candidate for the presidential race.