Turkey-US relationship will become more transactional
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Significance The Turkish government's crackdown on internal dissent, and its opposition to Kurdish groups at home and abroad have placed its NATO ally, the United States, in an awkward diplomatic position. Impacts Diminished military-to-military ties will rob the bilateral relationship of a strengthening influence. The United States will seek to mitigate the chances of a Russia-Turkey clash to avoid further regional complications. Washington will view Ankara's extraction of migration-related concessions from the EU unfavourably.