At the joint news conference on the results of his trip to Turkey, Joe Biden said the two allies will intensify their dialogue on how to best continue the joint fight against Daesh (also known as the Islamic State/ISIL/ISIS), as well as efforts to seal the final part of the Turkish-Syrian border.
However Turkish newspaper Zaman online suggested that there was something else behind the scene.
The real reason of Biden’s trips to Turkey, it says, is a necessity to take under control Turkish deteriorating relationship with Russia.
Obama, before leaving, has no intention of pushing the US towards military tensions with Russia in the Middle East. Thus he sent Biden to Turkey to prevent such a development and to “keep his eye on the ball”.
“A possibility that Ankara, being pressured by Russia at the Syrian front, will drag the US into the whirlpool of a new war makes many in Pentagon lose their sleep,” the outlet says.
And the recent Biden’s visit, it suggests, points at the existence of discrepancies between the US and the Turkish regime and the forceful need of cooperation between the two, which some may call a “strategic partnership”. The outlet however refers to it as a “willy nilly cooperation”.
