After a honeymoon with Moscow for more than a year, Ankara is now stepping up initiatives and declarations to regain Washington's good graces, and to take advantage of Donald Trump's presence in the White House to once again normalize its relations with the United States. United States and NATO. During an online seminar organized by the Atlantic Council, the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, once again expressed Ankara's desire to acquire Patriot anti-aircraft systems from Washington, or similar compatible systems with NATO prerequisites (it could only be the Franco-Italian SAMP / T Mamba).
The tensions that have arisen in recent months with Damascus and Moscow due to clashes between the Syrian armed forces supported by the Russian air force, and the Islamist paramilitary forces supported by the Turkish armies, have caused a significant deterioration in relations between Russia and Turkey. , and Ankara's isolation on the international scene. This isolation is all the more sensitive as the Turkish authorities have succeeded in rallying all European countries against them following the episode of refugee blackmail initiated by Ankara in the midst of the Covid19 crisis, and which caused an influx of refugees to the Greek borders.
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