"Testy Erdogan
by
The Economist
When Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, meets Barack Obama in the White House next week, he will insist on his country's Western credentials. He will be greeted with a request for more troops to back the American surge in Afghanistan. Turkey, which has NATO's second-biggest army, has 1,700 soldiers on Afghan soil and Turkish generals have led allied forces there. Yet Mr Erdogan's mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) Party dislikes American calls to fight fellow Muslims in Afghanistan. Turkey has opted to train Afghan security forces and build roads and schools instead. Mr Erdogan will spurn demands for combat troops."
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