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Friday, August 21, 2009

Turkey and Russia: Old rivals, new partners

"Turkey and Russia: Old rivals, new partners

ANKARA (The Economist) -- Through the long Ottoman era, Turks and Russians fought many bloody wars. In modern times Turkey guarded NATO’s southern flank against Soviet mischief. “The Russians are treacherous” is a popular Turkish adage. But one would hardly have guessed it as the two countries’ prime ministers, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, splashily signed a raft of agreements in a ceremony in Ankara on August 6th."

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