"The U.S. and Turkey: Rebuilding a fractured alliance
By Steven A. Cook and Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall International Herald Tribune
Published: July 3, 2006
NEW YORK As a model of a democratizing and secular Muslim state that has been a stalwart ally for more than 50 years, Turkey is of enormous strategic importance to the United States and Europe, especially at a time when the widening chasm between the West and the Islamic world looms as the greatest foreign policy challenge. Yet Ankara's relations with Washington are strained - over Iraq, Cyprus, Syria, Iran and Hamas - and Turkey's prospects for joining the European Union remain uncertain."
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