"ANKARA [MENL] -- Turkey and the United States were said to have ended their strategic relations.
A leading Turkish strategist asserted that strategic relations between Ankara and Washington gradually eroded over the last two years. As a result, the strategist, Kemal Koprulu, chairman of the Ari Movement, said the Bush administration has downgraded the U.S.-Turkish relationship and transferred responsibility from the Defense Department to the State Department. "
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