The relationship between the United States and Turkey was always one of necessity for Turkey and practicality for political leaders in Washington, said Özgür Ünlühisarcıklı, the director of the Ankara based German Marshall Fund. “There’s no such thing that Turkey and the United States once had a golden age in their relations and now it has been lost. The reality is that they never had one,” Ünlühisarcıklı told Edward Stafford in a podcast for Ahval’s Anatolian Dispatch on Tuesday.