"Lunch with Professor Inbar
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Professor Efraim Inbar is a professor of political studies at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University and is considered to be the foremost strategic analyst in Israel. He spoke yesterday to members of Sydney’s media
Israel’s relationship with Turkey is one subject on which he is highly regarded as an expert.
He told the meeting that Ataturk had done much to modernise Turkey during his period as president and that up until recently Turkey had perceived the Middle East as being corrupt. Ataturk had distanced his country from the Middle East becoming part of NATO during the Cold War. Turkey fought with the Americans in Korea. Inbar said: “In recent years we have seen a change in Turkish orientation and foreign policy”. He said that there had been a return to religion refuting Marx’s claim that religion was the opiate for the people and claiming that Marx underestimated the role it plays in international affairs."
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