To date, there are a number of problems between Ankara and Washington, the main one is the US policy on Syria.

By providing Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and People’s Protection Units (YPG) terrorists with weapons in northern Syria, the US actually endangers Turkey's national security and Ankara’s political elite does not hide that.

Despite the US guaranteed in 2017 that the YPG / PYD terrorists left Syria’s northern Manbij district, YPG / PYD militants still remain in this district, which pose a real threat to the entire region and Syria’s sovereignty.

The US also has eight strongholds in Syria, where the total number of US servicemen is 2,000. Despite the US and Turkey are formally allies in the region, Washington has lost Ankara’s confidence and the US policy on Syria in Ankara is seen as a failure.

As a result, Ankara, having big disagreements with Russia and Iran earlier, in the current situation began to pursue a policy of rapprochement with Moscow and Tehran on the Syrian crisis.

Today it becomes obvious that economic sanctions are the main leverage of US and Western pressure on one or another country.

Although earlier, a representative of the Turkish Foreign Ministry said that the US sanctions against Russia’s Rosoboronexport company will not affect the supply of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems to Ankara, US Assistant Secretary of State Wess Mitchell has recently said that sanctions can be imposed on Turkey in case of its buying these anti-aircraft missile systems from Russia.

Masaim Abdullayev,

“Khalq qazeti”