"Where will Turkey’s political crisis lead?
May 11, 2007
LEE SUSTAR explains how a showdown in Turkey is affecting U.S. imperial interests.
A POLITICAL crisis in Turkey could spell big trouble for the U.S. government as it tries to shore up its control of the Middle East after the debacle in Iraq.
Turkey faces early parliamentary elections in July following a showdown between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) and a coalition of secular nationalist opposition parties."
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