As noted in the WaPo.
This surely injects into State Department thinking - and Congressional hem-twisting over Israel - even greater concern about Turkey's direction under PM Erdogan. A country that had been both Israel's and the US's staunchest ally in the Middle East now purports to coordinate with the "mad mullahs" in military strikes against the Kurds. And some of those strikes will undoubtedly cross into Iraqi Kurdistan, where the government has long relied on the US's backing.
And this atop Turkey's assurance to Iran that the NATO radar bases it will be hosting are no threat to Iran.
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