Ambassador Robert Pearson
Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
Ambassador (ret) W. Robert Pearson served as U.S. ambassador to Turkey from 2000 to 2003. He is now a non-resident scholar at The Middle East Institute, where he focuses on Turkey, with a particular emphasis on U.S.-Turkey relations. His areas of interest include Turkey's relations with the EU, Russia, the Middle East, and Central and East Asia, in addition to the United States.
Turkey’s damaging crisis with Europe is self-generated in large part – a tactic sometimes used by Ankara to create a problem and then hold the other party responsible. Acting the victim also deflects [...] More
