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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Leon T. Hadar: Turkish Foreign Policy: What Would Ataturk Do?

Turkish Foreign Policy: What Would Ataturk Do?
Posted: 9/16/11 09:02 PM ET

Even before the crisis in the relationship between Israel and Turkey over the raid on the Gaza "Peace Flotilla" had erupted last December, right-wing Israelis and American neoconservatives were promoting a new Grand Narrative: Turkey was joining forces with Iran and Syria in an anti-American and anti-Israeli Islamofascist Axis of Evil, seeking to destroy the Jewish State as part of a long-term strategy of re-establishing the Ottoman Empire and a Global Caliphate. Turkey was becoming the New Iran.

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