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April 21, 2017

President Trump’s Call to Erdogan Reaffirmed American Alliances in the Middle East

Repairing the damage done by the Obama administration.

Turkey’s national referendum on Sunday—which approved constitutional reforms granting near-dictatorial powers to the country’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan—triggered a call from Donald Trump that some have criticized for effectively condoning the collapse of democracy. But Lee Smith argues that the call was a necessary reaffirmation of the unsteady alliance between Washington and Ankara:

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