This week the President selected one of the less bad ones by approving a plan to arm Syrian Kurds combating Islamic State.
Turkey slammed the U.S. decision to arm the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara considers terrorists but which Washington sees as an indispensable ally in the fight against IS. The weapons are meant to bolster the Kurdish fighters as they set out to dislodge the caliphate from its "capital" of.
Mattis acknowledged Turkey's concerns that weapons could end up in the hands of the Kurdish militants in Turkey, known as the PKK.
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"We want to believe that our allies will prefer to side with us, not with a terrorist organization", he said, adding that he would use his upcoming meeting with President Trump to lobby against the program.
Khalil dismissed the label, saying the USA would not supply arms to terrorists.
Despite the angry language, Erdogan's government has little prospect of reversing Washington's decision, and any retaliatory move would come at a cost. The official, who wasn't authorized to discuss the issue publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the USA has yet to provide the weapons.
"We support Turkey in its fight against PKK", he said.
Washington has previously supplied light weapons and armored vehicles to the Arab element of the SDF.
Kawa Azizi, a political science professor at Salahaddin University in Iraq's Kurdish region, said that by sending arms, the U.S.is expecting a rapid defeat of IS.
The Trump administration says it will supply the Syrian Democratic Forces, of which the YPG is the main component, with heavier weapons ahead of a push on the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, the IS group's de facto capital.
The YPG said the US's "historic" decision to begin providing it with weapons and other equipment would speed up its assault on IS positions.
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Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli said the United States should review its move.
Turkey's top diplomat has criticized a US decision to provide arms to Syrian Kurdish fighters, saying every weapon given to them poses a threat to Turkey.
A Pentagon spokeswoman described the SDF as "the only force on the ground that can successfully seize Raqqa in the near future", while also stressing that "we are keenly aware" of Turkey's security concerns.A YPG spokesman said the decision would "provide a strong impetus" to all forces fighting IS.
But this sparked ire from Turkey, which regards the YPG as the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which since 1984 has waged an insurgency inside Turkey, leaving tens of thousands dead.
"If a negative decision is taken, its consequences will not only be against Turkey but have a negative impact on the US, too", Yıldırım said.
Erdogan vowed to bring up "our worries" on the issue in talks with U.S. President Donald Trump on May 16 in Washington.
"The SDF's increased pressure on ISIS from each flank allowed it to. clear the final neighbourhoods of the city and isolate Tabqa dam", said Centcom, referring to IS.
"The SDF's success against ISIS demonstrates the power of working by, with and through local partner forces fighting ISIS, among their own people, in their own territory", said Dorrian.
The dispute over arming Syria's Kurds poisoned ties between the two North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies under the administration of former president Barack Obama but Ankara had hoped for smoother ties under Trump.
"Syrian Democratic Forces have fully liberated Tabqah Dam".
She said the decision is likely to be met with "aggression" from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is to visit Washington next week.
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