Iraqi leaders met with senior US diplomats on Thursday, July 15, to discuss preparations for the next round of strategic dialogue talks and plans for Washington to withdraw troops from Iraq.
For years, domestic balances, threat perceptions and foreign policymaking institutions have had an important effect on Turkey’s foreign policy pattern. However, the country’s foreign policymaking mechanisms have gone through serious structural changes in the past two decades.
A Syrian Kurdish politician said the new US administration's policy on Iraq and Syria was still unclear and that Turkey could not be expected to invade Shingal or elsewhere until the United States gave the green light.