"Talat pulling strings to meet Clinton
By Stefanos Evripidou
REPORTS yesterday indicated the Turkish government was pulling strings to get Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat an audience with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington next week.
A number of news reports yesterday cited diplomatic sources saying that Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was pushing for a meeting between Talat and Clinton in an effort to boost his ratings before ‘parliamentary’ elections in the north, set for April 19."
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