"TURKEY SIDES WITH MOSCOW AGAINST WASHINGTON ON BLACK SEA FORCE
By Igor Torbakov
Friday, March 3, 2006
Ankara, Moscow, veto moving Operation Active Endeavor to Black Sea
Ankara and Moscow joined forces to reject the U.S. administration's proposal to expand a NATO-led Mediterranean counterterrorism effort into the Black Sea. Turkey and Russia's joint opposition to the U.S. request underscores the two countries' growing wariness of U.S. strategic designs in the wider Black Sea region."
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