"Comment: Spurned by the West, Turkey looks eastward
Suat Kınıklıoğlu
Ankara In 2002, when Tuncer Kilinc, the secretary general of Turkey's powerful National Security Council, said that the country should abandon its efforts to become a member of the European Union and turn toward its regional neighbors Russia and Iran, few Turks took him seriously.
Four years later, Kilinc's proposition does not look so far-fetched. According to the Transatlantic Trends 2006 survey co-sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Turks feel twice as warm toward Iran as they do toward the United States. Equally, Turkish feelings toward the EU have experienced sharp declines."
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