[AlAhram] ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that he expected a joint roadmap with the United States regarding the northern Syrian city of Manbij not to be impacted by tensions bewteen the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
allies.
Erodgan's comments, in a speech in Ankara, came two days after Washington imposed sanctions on two