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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Ankara tries to play honest broker

"Ankara tries to play honest broker

By Delphine Strauss

Published: January 21 2009 02:00 | Last updated: January 21 2009 02:00

Ahmet Davutoglu, top foreign policy adviser to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, returned from eight days of frantic talks in Cairo and Damascus to a telling-off from his daughter. 'You're travelling every day, we don't get to see you but there are still children being killed. You're not doing your job,' was the 10-year-old's verdict, he says."

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