"US keeps low profile as Turkey simmers in crisis
AFP
May 11, 2007
WASHINGTON -- The United States is lying low as a political crisis unfolds in Turkey, a pivotal military ally that the administration sees as a democratic bridge between Islam and Europe.
Washington has given only a muted response to veiled threats of intervention from the Turkish military to prevent the election of an Islamist figure as the staunchly secular country's president. "
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