Turkey–United States relations

Turkey and the United States should take immediate steps to re-evaluate the strategic framework of bilateral ties after Donald Trump took the helm as the new U.S. president, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said. 

Despite being "tested" by problems and "misperceptions," Turkey-U.S. relations are "not irretrievable" and could be fixed under the presidency of Donald Trump, according to Stephen Hadley, a former U.S. National Security Advisor, speaking after top-level talks in Ankara on Jan. 17.

Ankara is planning to engage in more intense diplomacy with the U.S. under Donald Trump's incoming administration, amid news that a Turkish presidential delegation is set to visit Washington D.C. in February to contact the new administration.

The first concrete words that Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan wants to hear from the Donald Trump administration, scheduled to take office on Jan. 20, came from Trump's pick for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, during his Jan. 11 testimony to the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has admitted strains in ties between Turkey and the United States, while calling on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to contribute to progress in relations. 

"We are passing through a very sensitive period in our ties," Erdoğan said, blasting the Obama administration's "wrong choices" in the fight against ISIL in Syria.

Turkey has two main expectations from the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Turkey's foreign minister has said, naming them as the extradition of Fethullah Gülen, the alleged mastermind of the July 2016 coup attempt, and the cessation of cooperation with Syrian Kurds against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).   

Turks are "questioning the presence of U.S.-led coalition forces" at the Incirlik air base in southern Turkey, Reuters has said.

The agency reported this on Thursday quoting Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak, who spoke for the A Haber broadcaster.

Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump will listen more to Middle East countries like Turkey than either the outgoing Obama administration or the person he defeated in the election, Hillary Clinton, according to the chair of the Turkey-US Business Council, Ekin Alptekin.

The US State Department has warned of an increased threat of terrorist attacks against American citizens in Istanbul.

The Department has ordered the families of the employees of the US Consulate in Istanbul to leave the country.

Ankara has given permission for German lawmakers to pay a visit to Turkey's İncirlik Air Base, after previously refusing access amid a row over a bill in the German Bundestag labeling the World War I-era killing of Anatolian Armenians as "genocide."