"Turkey's turnabout
Bam's futile Muslim outreach
By BENNY AVNI
Turkey this week broke sig nificantly with Israel and the West -- a strong sign that President Obama's outreach to the Muslim world is achieving nothing.
On Monday, NATO scrapped "Anatolian Eagle," a regularly scheduled military exercise with various allies along the Turkish border -- drills meant to assure coordination in case of war in the region. At the last minute, Turkey had announced its refusal to let the Israeli Defense Force participate. Standing by its ally, America dropped out as well -- killing the whole thing.
A day later, Turkish and Syrian officials disclosed that their armies had just concluded their own joint military exercise. The same day, the two countries went even further, signing a strategic cooperation pact. "
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