Erdogan not going to Washington

The already difficult US-Turkey relationship has entered an even more delicate phase with the cancellation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to Washington. 

The underlying causes of bilateral tensions are many and well-known. Relations between the two NATO allies are increasingly characterized by mutual mistrust, if not disdain, the result of widely diverging views and policies on a range of issues from the Russian S-400 missile defense system to the Kurds in Syria, and above all, to Hamas and Israel's war in Gaza.

The Turkish president tries to establish himself as a leader of the Islamic world, and in so doing finds it useful, especially in the domestic political scene, to attack the West and even more so, Israel.

The question in Athens is whether the latest developments will have an impact on Greek-Turkish relations.

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