Shooting at U.S. Embassy in Ankara leads to rare moment of U.S.-Turkey solidarity
2018-08-21 10:04:09 source：The Washington Post
August 21, 2018
ISTANBUL -- When gunmen opened fire on the U.S. Embassy in Ankara just before sunrise Monday, they struck a fortified guard booth but caused no injuries or other harm.
The shooting in the Turkish capital, however, posed a different kind of danger: threatening to aggravate a bitter feud between Turkey and the United States that has raged for weeks.
The dispute centers on Turkey’s refusal to release a detained American pastor and is the worst between the two NATO allies in decades. It has included tit-for-tat economic sanctions and recriminations between President Trump and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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