Politics of the United States

Recently, there have been ongoing debates which may cause serious fractures in Turkey's foreign policy. These debates also carry the risk of escalating the existing fragilities in the economy.

U.S. Republican front-runner Donald Trump expressed confidence on Jan. 23 that he could push back attempts by his rivals to knock him off his top perch, saying he could stand on New York's Fifth Avenue "and shoot somebody," and still not lose voters. 

Democratic presidential candidates clashed late Jan. 17 in their final debate before first votes are cast in Iowa, with Hillary Clinton presenting herself as best qualified as she parried attacks from pugnacious rival Bernie Sanders.

U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and top challenger Ted Cruz clashed sharply on Jan. 14 over the Texas senator's eligibility to run for the White House during a tense debate weeks before voters start to pick the party's nominee. 

Wiping back tears as he remembered children killed in a mass shooting, President Barack Obama on Jan. 5 ordered stricter gun rules that he can impose without Congress and urged American voters to reject pro-gun candidates.

A county sheriff and judge on Jan. 4 demanded that self-styled militiamen occupying a remote U.S. wildlife center in Oregon peacefully end their 3-day-old anti-government siege, telling the protesters: "It's time for you to leave our community."

U.S. Republican Ben Carson's 2016 presidential bid was thrown into chaos on the last day of 2015 when his campaign manager and some 20 other staff members quit amid infighting, dropping poll numbers and negative media coverage. 

American billionaire Donald Trump, the dominant  Republican no one can stop talking about heading into the 2016 presidential election, is leaving his rivals far behind in the polls.
 

The Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Dec. 19 that the withdrawal of Turkish troops from the Bashiqa training camp near Mosul would "continue."

In the same statement it said the problem arose between the Turkish and Iraqi governments over the Turkish troops there because of a communications mistake regarding the deployment of reinforcements to the camp earlier in the month.

Hillary Clinton and other Democratic presidential hopefuls used Donald Trump as a political bogeyman on Dec. 18 to highlight their own calls to defeat jihadist extremists without the bigotry and bluster brandished by their top Republican rival.