The Turks are not fools. They know that Obama is an incompetent pacifist idealoge. The best course is to avoid dealing with such a fool.
There was a coalition that in effect kicked Obama out last year. That was when he erased the red line
U.S. Aids Turkey in Creating an Islamic Caliphate Shoebat | 8/31/2014 | FR Posted by markomalley
Obama is sending Defense Secretary Hagel to Turkey to ratchet its efforts to tame ISIS while knowingly aware that Turkey is a supporter of ISIS! The efforts as they claim is to build what the administration termed Coalition of the Willing.
Hagel is being sent to intensify the push for an international campaign against ISIS. In his remarks during a briefing on Friday, Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said that Hagel will start his international trip to visit Wales, Georgia and Turkey.
“Turkey is a key NATO ally. Given its border with Syria and Iraq, [Turkey] shares our deep concerns with the regional threat posed by ISIL,” Kirby told reporters.Hagel’s Turkey visit is seen as part of the US’ search of support from the countries in the region. Turkey will be last stop on Hagel’s six-day trip that starts on Wednesday.This visit will mark Hagel’s first official trip to Turkey as Pentagon head.
“Hagel has longstanding relationships with Turkey’s leaders, including the newly inaugurated President (Sultan) Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the secretary views the upcoming visit as an important opportunity to advance the critical US-Turkey relationship,” Kirby said.
All this regardless that the Turkey-US ties became strained after the corruption probe when pro-government media accused the US ambassador of being behind the investigation and then-Prime Minister Erdogan threatened to expel the envoy. Bilateral relations then hit a rough patch when freedom of expression and press freedom deteriorated and anti-American and anti-Semitic rhetoric was used by Erdogan and other Turkish officials. --SNIP--