"Turkish Foreign Policy Increasingly Islamist
By Gareth Jones
Reuters
ANKARA, Turkey -- U.S. Congressman Robert Wexler did not mince his words during a visit to Ankara last week when he condemned Turkey's decision in February to host leaders of the militant Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
'Your opponents have been bolstered and your friends have been deflated [by that invitation],' he told a gathering that included members of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, and Foreign Ministry officials. Wexler's comments, nearly two months after the event, underlined the continued repercussions of a visit that outraged Israel and the United States, dismayed the EU and stirred suspicions that the AKP wants to remold Turkey's foreign policy along more Islamist lines."
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