I have said over and over again on this very forum, that turkey is no allie of this country. They just wanted our money and if they thought they could get more from France and Germany, they would drop us like a hot potato.
Oh, yeah, we needed a base there,cold war and all... but no more.
We will work with the Kurds and maybe they will have their own country at last... and turkey can be just what a TURKEY is, dumbest bird in the world.
It was reported that CHirac was openly undermining the US with Turkey and actively trying to sabotage any deals with the Turks. He did, it worked. Now what?