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This paper examines relations between the United States and Turkey from the perspective of how Turkey has tried to limit, modify, resist, control, undermine and render ineffective the policy preferences of the United States on several occasions. The author specifically analyzes four instances of significant divergences between the two countries and how Turkey tried to affect changes in US policies. The four cases discussed are the Turkish threat to intervene in Cyprus in 1964, the American demand to terminate opium cultivation in Turkey from 1971-1974, the Turkish intervention in Cyprus in 1974 and the subsequent US arms embargo, and the American plans to use Turkish facilities and geographical space for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.