Who triggers anti-Americanism in Turkey?

It is not the first time U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition To Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Brett McGurk raised eyebrows in Turkey. His remarks last week at the Washington-based Middle East Institute, which by the Turkish government were considered as an insinuation of a link between Turkey and Al Qaeda fractions in Syria's Idlib province, was only the last epitome of mutual distrust between him and Ankara. 

In Turkey for long he was named and shamed as the architect of the U.S. policy to partner with the People's Protection Units (YPG) in Syria, which is nothing else than the extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) for Ankara. I remember Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu right after attending the inauguration of President Donald Trump back in January telling us at the Turkish Embassy in Washington that the actions of McGurk, like wearing a YPG uniform, raised anti-Americanism in Turkey. I did an extensive search and never found a single photo of McGurk in YPG uniform, but maybe the Turkish intelligence had one!

There was a strong expectation from the Turkish government that Trump would get rid of the diplomat who was appointed by Barack Obama. Not only Trump did not do that, he further empowered McGurk by sticking to a counter-ISIL strategy which ended up in supplying heavy weapons to a group Turkey considers a top national security threat. 

This is the thorny framework where McGurk's Idlib remarks became the last straw that broke the camel's back. Ankara's angry protest for being portrayed as somewhat supporting Al Qaeda terrorism was conveyed both to him personally by Ambassador Sedat Önal by phone and also to his institution at several levels. I learned McGurk...