"A very Ottoman gambit
11/03/2011
By Amir Taheri
Shamgen! Does it sound familiar? Obviously not. This is the codeword used in Ankara and Tehran for 'a new political architecture for the Middle East' as imagined by Turkish and Iranian geo-strategists.
That the region will need a new political architecture is beyond doubt. No one knows what the recent and current uprisings in half a dozen countries from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean might produce. However, all agree that we ought to be looking for something more than a paint job."
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