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Turkey's US envoy 'not naive' to differences, sees room for cooperation with Washington

In an interview with Al-Monitor's Andrew Parasiliti, Hasan Murat Mercan talked the S-400s, tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean and what a US recognition of the Armenian genocide would mean for the relationship.
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One month into the job, Turkish Ambassador to the United States Hasan Murat Mercan acknowledges the fraught relationship between the two NATO allies but says he’ll look for areas of common ground.  

“I know the differences between the two countries. I’m not naive enough to ignore them or to say that there are no differences,” Mercan told Al-Monitor’s Andrew Parasiliti.

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