"Analysis: Obama visit to Turkey no afterthought
By STEVEN R. HURST – 12 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's stop in Turkey is hardly an afterthought, a 'while I'm in the neighborhood' visit.
For starters, he wants to mend relations strained when the United States went to war in Iraq six years ago. Ankara's Islamic-rooted government denied Washington's request to use Turkish territory to invade Iraq from the north. But Turkey also is in line for thanks for trying to bring peace between Israelis and Palestinians."
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