{"id":19714,"date":"2019-10-30T20:17:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/10\/30\/us-turkey-alliance-in-downward-spiral-as-congress-mulls-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:57:00","slug":"us-turkey-alliance-in-downward-spiral-as-congress-mulls-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/10\/30\/us-turkey-alliance-in-downward-spiral-as-congress-mulls-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Turkey alliance in downward spiral as Congress mulls sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2015 Frayed relations between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2019\/10\/24\/amid-syria-discord-nato-chief-backs-extending-air-defense-help-to-turkey\/\" target=\"_blank\">NATO allies<\/a> Turkey and the U.S. were on full display Wednesday as Turkey condemned two resolutions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/10\/29\/bipartisan-house-oks-bill-hitting-turkey-for-syria-incursion\/\" target=\"_blank\">passed <\/a>by the U.S. House of Representatives, one which would bar most American weapons sales to Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. lawmakers said Wednesday that U.S.-Turkey ties, strained over the Turkish attacks on America\u2019s Kurdish allies in the fight against the Islamic State group, had been going downhill for months over Turkey\u2019s growing relationship with Russia. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s agreement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/07\/12\/despite-us-warnings-russian-s-400-systems-land-in-turkey\/\" target=_blank>buy the Russian-made S-400 air defense system<\/a>, which triggered Ankara\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2019\/07\/17\/turkey-officially-kicked-out-of-f-35-program\/\" target=_blank>suspension from the F-35 fighter jet program in July<\/a>, was the tipping point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. President Donald Trump this week thanked Turkey for its role in the recent U.S. special forces operation that killed the head of ISIS, and has held open an invitation for Erdogan to visit Washington. But the goodwill in the White House has not translated to Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In harsh remarks to reporters Wednesday, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, said Erdogan is the biggest obstacle to positive U.S.-Turkish relations. \u201cI think the minute Erdogan\u2019s gone, I think this thing turns around,\u201d Risch said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe would love to [improve relations], but our concern is Erdogan has shown absolutely no indication of any kind that that feeling is mutual,\u201d Risch added. \u201cIndeed, every move he makes, every sentence he utters, points us in a different direction. The Turkish people have been wonderful allies for decades with the United States, and it\u2019s gone upside down because of one person in one administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/air\/2019\/10\/28\/turkey-russia-in-advanced-talks-on-potential-su-35-jet-deal\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/russia-syria-2917.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Turkey, Russia in negotiations for potential Su-35 jet deal<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">If penned, an Su-35 deal will be Turkey\u2019s second major purchase of weapons systems from Russia.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, the House passed a nonbinding resolution to recognize the century-old mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide. It passed another bill, 403-16, to sanction senior Turkish officials and its Army for Turkey\u2019s military incursion into northeastern Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Practically, the latter measure would bar most U.S. weapons sales to Turkey and slaps sanctions on foreigners attempting to send the Turks military equipment. It would also block high-ranking Turkish officials from their assets in the U.S. and restrict their travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response, the Turkish parliament condemned the bills, and Turkey\u2019s Foreign Affairs Ministry said it summoned U.S. Ambassador David Satterfield on Wednesday. \u201cUndoubtedly, this [Armenian genocide] resolution will negatively affect the image of the U.S. before the public opinion of Turkey,&#8221; the ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House sanctions bill was seen not only as a rebuke to Turkey, but also of Trump, who suspended his own sanctions amid a Moscow-brokered cease-fire between Turkish and Kurdish forces. While Republicans have largely focused blame for the situation on Erdogan alone, Democrats have more openly criticized Trump for giving Erdogan the green light to invade Syria by withdrawing U.S. troops from the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In House floor remarks Tuesday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., said Trump had failed to punish the \u201cauthoritarian thug\u201d Erdogan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;His rule has left a glaring black mark on Turkey\u2019s historic secular, democratic traditions,\u201d Engel said in a House floor speech. \u201cWe need to pressure him while ramping up diplomacy in the hopes of getting Turkey back on the right track as a NATO ally. That\u2019s one of the goals of this measure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There have been several proposals in the House and Senate aimed at sending a message that Turkey\u2019s incursion into Syria was wrong and that the American presence there was valid. With the House\u2019s passage of its sanctions bill, the focus shifts to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who has expressed a wariness of sanctions against Turkey and is the gatekeeper for what legislation receives a vote in the upper chamber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the sponsor of one sanctions bill with Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said he planned Wednesday to ask McConnell to take up the House bill, which can be expedited to the Senate floor. Graham is the Senate\u2019s lead appropriator for the U.S. State Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAwesome bipartisan takedown of Turkey\u2019s invasion just occurred in the House with overwhelming support from Democrats and Republicans \u2014 403-16,\u201d Graham said Tuesday on Twitter. \u201cI expect the Senate will take up this cause and let Turkey unequivocally know that the United States will not sit on the sidelines as they create problems for us and our allies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/mideast-africa\/2019\/10\/24\/no-obliteration-western-arms-embargo-has-little-impact-on-turkey-as-it-looks-east\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1164324697.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">No obliteration: Western arms embargo has little impact on Turkey as it looks east<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">A number of Turkey\u2019s NATO allies have suspended arms sales to the country in condemnation of its military incursion into Syria. So why are analysts and officials shrugging off the embargo?<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While relations could get worse, experts say Ankara and the West need each other too much to fully split.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the U.S. and NATO, Turkey controls crucial international waterways that connect the Aegean and Mediterranean seas to the Black Sea. Turkey has the second-largest military in the NATO alliance and is home to U.S. nuclear warheads at its Incirlik Air Base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Erdogan, NATO is critical to his aspiration to make Turkey an important international player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you\u2019re not in NATO, your wings will have been clipped,\u201d Henri Barkey, a Middle East scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations, said at his think tank\u2019s forum on Turkey last week. \u201cHe\u2019s playing this game, he gets the S-400, but he\u2019s never going to leave NATO. He keeps pushing the envelope.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The partnership between Ankara and Washington has survived other crises, but it\u2019s entering what some see as its most turbulent period yet, marked now by Turkey hedging on its NATO membership and some America lawmakers questioning whether that membership can be revoked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was a sign to Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee since 2007, that the relationship is in a crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s been comment in the American political system that we should be rethinking this,\u201d he said. &#8220;But don\u2019t get me wrong, the mainstream believes we want Turkey to remain in NATO \u2014 that\u2019s in our national security interest. We have an incredible presence in Turkey today, so we don\u2019t want to lose that. But it\u2019s a pretty serious situation, the most serious I\u2019ve seen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2019\/07\/16\/trump-cuts-off-f-35-for-turkey-and-lawmakers-say-sanctions-are-coming\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/trump-erdogan-51817.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Lawmakers say Trump is locked into Turkey sanctions<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Lawmakers say the law is very clear: Trump has no choice but to sanction its NATO ally.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Turkey, the alliance between the U.S. and Syrian Kurds has driven fears it will lead to an autonomous Kurdish region. Turkey views the forces allied with the U.S. as an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party, or PKK, which is seeking Kurdish independence and which Turkey regards as a terrorist group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following a 2016 coup attempt, the Turkish government blamed a U.S.-based Muslim cleric, and Erdogan blasted the West for \u201csupporting terrorism and taking sides with coups.\u201d Erdogan has continued to operate under martial law ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the U.S., Turkey&#8217;s participation in the F-35 program came into question amid several tense episodes and what then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis called Turkey\u2019s \u201cauthoritarian drift.\u201d Turkey held an American pastor, Andrew Craig Brunson, on terrorism charges from 2016 to 2018. In 2017, Turkish government employees beat protesters outside the Turkish ambassador&#8217;s residence in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, Turkey rejected a U.S. offer of Raytheon\u2019s Patriot surface-to-air missile system in favor of the S-400, which Washington said would expose important intelligence about the sophisticated and stealthy F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to Russian government advisers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThose of us who deal with this sat down regularly with everyone from the top down in Turkey, and they all said: \u2018Oh, we can\u2019t do anything because you\u2019ve refused to sell us Patriots,\u2019 \u201d said Risch, the senator from Idaho. \u201cI said: \u2018That is a lie.\u2019 And the reason I know that\u2019s a lie is because I hand-delivered a letter in October 2012 to the foreign minister in Ankara that said: \u2018Buy Patriots.\u2019 It was a bipartisan letter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2019\/08\/28\/esper-turkey-could-rejoin-f-35-program-if-s-400-is-out-of-the-country\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19193497789232.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Esper sets demand that might let Turkey rejoin F-35 program<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Turkey can&#039;t just put deactivated S-400s in a warehouse, says the Pentagon chief.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Ellen Lord recently told reporters that Turkey\u2019s suspension of the F-35 remained in effect and that she expects Turkey\u2019s S-400 to be operational before the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of last week, Turkey was still making nearly 1,000 parts for the aircraft and is \u201can excellent supplier,\u201d but it will transfer those responsibilities in March, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For years, Congress had been willing to defer to the executive branch, which was wary of pushing Turkey further away, but no more, said Naz Durakoglu, staff director for Congress\u2019 NATO Observer Group and an adviser to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere has been a tangible change,\u201d Durakoglu said at last week\u2019s forum at the Council on Foreign Relations. \u201cI think what you will see is both Republicans and Democrats take a very stern turn and look at their own authorities to address some of the issues they feel are not being addressed by the administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The partnership between Turkey and the United States has survived a number of crises, but it\u2019s entering what some see as its most turbulent period 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