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Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Who's Afraid of Turkey?

"Who's Afraid of Turkey?
By Soner Cagaptay
Newsweek, June 4, 2010

Turkey is starting to scare Americans, for good reason. There was the high-profile clash at Davos over the Palestinians, fraying Turkish ties to Israel. Then came the surprise uranium deal with Tehran, undermining Western pressure on Iran to come clean about its nuclear program. Now there's a new clash with Israel over Turkish support for the convoys challenging Israel's embargo on Gaza. But just as Turkey is starting to look more assertively pro-Islamist than ever, there are signs that a big internal shift may reshape Turkish politics and redirect its foreign policy back toward the West."

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