The outcome of Tuesday’s knife-edge US election is unlikely to have much of an impact on the tepid ties between Washington and Ankara, although presidential chemistry might help, experts say, AFP reports.

“Today, it looks like both have decided to agree on some issues, disagree on others and look for areas of cooperation,” Soner Cagaptay of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy told AFP.

Such areas include Africa “where Turkiye has built influence, and Muslim Eurasia, where Turkiye has historic influence, where the two could work together”, he said.

Turkiye has long nursed a grudge over Washington’s alliance with a Kurdish militia in its battle against Islamic State insurgents in Syria.

And Ankara’s binary foreign policy choices have infuriated Washington, notably its ties with Russia and China and refusal to join Western sanctions against Moscow.