[Al Jazeera] The US secretary of state has acknowledged that his country's relationship with ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
is "at a bit of a crisis point", as his
At a joint presser in Ankara on Friday, Rex Tillerson said the US-Turkey alliance "is too valuable" for the two countries not to take action together, particularly on their dispute over the US' support of the armed Syrian Kurdish YPG, considered a "terrorist group" by the
"Ours is not an alliance of convenience or of temporary interest. It is a time-tested alliance built on common interest and mutual respect," Tillerson said.
"Our two countries share the same objectives in Syria."