US-Turkey relations in crisis

A tit-for-tat freeze on non-immigrant visas has sent relations between America and Turkey into a chill.

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan: adrift from Western moorings
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Only last month US president Donald Trump declared that his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan had "become a friend", say Benjamin Harvey and Brendan Scott on Bloomberg. No longer, apparently, now that there has been a tit-for-tat freeze on non-immigrant visas between the United States and Turkey.

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