"Turkey Goes From Pliable Ally to Thorn for U.S.
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Lebanese protesters stood behind a Turkish flag last week at an anti-Israel demonstration outside the United Nations offices in downtown Beirut, Lebanon.
By SABRINA TAVERNISE and MICHAEL SLACKMAN
Published: June 8, 2010
ANKARA, Turkey — For decades, Turkey was one of the United States’ most pliable allies, a strategic border state on the edge of the Middle East that reliably followed American policy. But recently, it has asserted a new approach in the region, its words and methods as likely to provoke Washington as to advance its own interests."
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