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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Fault lines of Turkish-American relations -- Understanding the fault lines of Turkish-US relations -- Fault lines that started before and during the Cold War -- The fault lines that emerged in the Middle East -- Chapter 1: The role of public opinion -- Introduction -- The value of public opinion and public diplomacy -- The Ottoman Empire and pre-Republic period -- The new Republic and the Second Word War -- A post-war honeymoon -- The honeymoon sours: The 1960s and 1970s -- The end of the honeymoon -- The rise of anti-Americanism -- The rise of the AK Party and intensification of anti-Americanism -- American global image and impact in Turkey -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: US congressional attitudes: A long-running challenge for Turkey -- Introduction -- US Congress and Turkey -- Relations with US Congress prior to the formation of the Republic (1894-1923) -- Ethnic lobbies and Turkey -- Armenian interest groups: History as a battle ground -- Greek interest groups: Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean -- Congressional role in Turkey defence policy: Arms embargo to CAATSA -- Human rights concerns, religious minorities and the Kurdish question -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Turkey-US-Russia triangle: Common enemy, realignments and unipolarity -- Introduction -- The rise of the strategic alliance against the Soviet Union (1919-46) -- Turkey moves closer to the United States (1946-60) -- A change in trilateral dynamics (1953-79) -- A rapprochement with the United States (1979-91) -- New dimensions after the Cold War (1991-2016) -- The Arab Spring and beyond (2011-21) -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Syria as a faultline in Turkish-American relations -- Introduction -- Syria's emergence as a topic of bilateral relations.

"The civil war in Syria has gravely impacted Turkey - currently it alone hosts more than two million refugees from Syria. A great majority of these refugees live around the cities along the Turkish-Syrian border. With no end in sight, Turkey, as the country that hosts more refugees than any other state in the world, has reached a significant threshold in its ability to unilaterally deal with and sustain its response to the situation. In order to deal with the three different dimensions of the refugee crisis, a multilayered approach needs to be established by a global coalition of countries." (author's abstract)

US-Turkish relations are in the best shape of recent memory. President Barack Obama's first official overseas visit (in 2009) was meant to start a new type of relationship with Turkey, dubbed the "model partnership," but the bilateral relations received particular attention in the wake of two major diplomatic crises in 2010: a flotilla incident—when the ship the Mavi Marmara, owned by a Turkish nonprofit organization, was boarded by the Israeli military while on the way to Gaza with aid—and Turkey's "no" vote at the UN Security Council on sanctions against Iran. Both of these crises had to do with regional issues of vital importance for both the United States and Turkey. The Arab Spring that began in late 2010, however, created a new dynamic that rendered cooperation between the two countries critical.