I've lived and worked with the Turks and you are correct...alienate them at our own peril. Most Turks are broadly pro-American, and hit pieces from Greek shills aside, they are close allies.
Really most are pro-american,since when. I remember a turkish film recently that portrayed the US and Israel as murders and organ havesters in Iraq. We know the islamic turks hate us along with the rest of the backwards ass islamic world. Sorry but they will be no caliphate.