"Opinion: Explaining Turkey’s high-risk activism
By Ronald H. Linden — Special to GlobalPost
Published: December 7, 2009 11:17 ET
WASHINGTON — On Monday, Prime Minister Recip Erdogan of Turkey arrived in Washington trailing a list of actions designed to achieve “zero problems” with his country’s neighbors. Considering how many immediate neighbors there are (seven) and who they are (e.g. Iran, Iraq, Syria, Armenia) this is a tall order. Ankara’s activism has raised the stakes in its own neighborhood and eyebrows in the United States."
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