Erdogan’s friendship with Trump has extra benefits
The friendship between the Turkish and American presidents thrives despite all ideological differences, so much so that elites of Turkey's ruling party view the impeachment inquiry as an act of the "deep state" or even a "coup" against Trump.
Since US Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi introduced the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, I have been receiving agitated calls from Ankara. From the first day on, Justice and Development Party (AKP) elites have been referring to the impeachment inquiry against Trump as an act of the deep state or the CIA — even going so far as to call it a coup. So Trump’s October tweets echoing the same lines were not surprising to those of us who are familiar with the AKP's rhetoric.
The Trump administration has extensively supported the Kurds in Syria — or at least it did until this month. Trump declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel, and he is not known for his embrace of Palestine or other Muslim communities.
