"Lebanon through Turkish eyes
Erdal Güven
15 - 8 - 2006
The war in Lebanon has reinforced Turkish criticisms of the United States, Israel and Europe alike, says Erdal Gûven.
Turkey, as an overwhelmingly Muslim nation located at the edge of the middle east with close cultural as well as historical ties to the region, has always been sensitive to the Arab-Israeli conflict. In the latest chapter of this conflict – the war in Lebanon sparked by Hizbollah's border raid of 12 July 2006 and ended with a precarious ceasfire on 14 August – this sensitivity has expressed itself in a range of responses that are more uniform at the popular than at the official, governmental level. "
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