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Why have Turkey and the US suspended visa services?
Since the failed putsch in July 2016, authorities have arrested tens of thousands of Turks it accuses of having links to the Gulenist movement in a sweeping crackdown, but also has included at least a dozen US citizens, some with dual Turkish-US nationalities, one of was Andrew Brunson, an American pastor.
Washington once saw Turkey as key to battling Islamic State militants and other terror groups in Syria and Iraq.
The new diplomatic low between the US and Turkey comes less than a month after Donald Trump said ties between the countries were "close as we've ever been".
Since the failed putsch in July 2016, authorities have arrested tens of thousands of Turks it accuses of having links to the Gulenist movement in a sweeping crackdown, but also has included at least a dozen US citizens, some with dual Turkish-US nationalities, one of was Andrew Brunson, an American pastor.
Washington once saw Turkey as key to battling Islamic State militants and other terror groups in Syria and Iraq.
The new diplomatic low between the US and Turkey comes less than a month after Donald Trump said ties between the countries were "close as we've ever been".
