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On Friday, the United States and Turkey agreed to try to mend strategic ties that Washington acknowledged had reached a crisis point, with Turkey proposing a joint deployment in Syria if a US-backed Kurdish militia leaves a border area.
Following weeks of escalating anti-American rhetoric from the Turkish government, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with President Tayyip Erdogan during a two-day visit.
Tillerson told a news conference after meeting with Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Friday morning, “We find ourselves at a bit of a crisis point in the relationship. We’ve decided and President Erdogan decided last night we needed to talk about how do we go forward. The relationship is too important.”
