"Politics & Policies: Turkey turns eastward
Published: June 20, 2007 at 1:34 PM
By CLAUDE SALHANI
UPI International Editor
WASHINGTON, June 20 (UPI) -- Turkey in recent years has shifted away from one of the basic tenets established by Mustafa Kemal, better known as Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish state, by becoming more and more involved in Middle Eastern politics.
'Turkey is now emerging as an important diplomatic actor in the Middle East,' F. Stephen Larrabee, holder of the corporate chair in European security at the RAND Corp., writes in the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs."
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