Note to Islamic radicals: Allah loves you more when you fill balloons and burn American flags in same area.
Turkey also has extensive military and economic ties with Israel, allowing the Israeli Air Force access to Turkish air space for high speed exercises which require vast amounts of space.
Modern Turkey also contributes the second largest number of troops to NATO, and is one of those heathen secular democratic states which the Islamicists wish to destroy. Those are just a couple of reasons why Turco-American relations are so important.