Old and In the Way: Turkey, straddling the divide between East and West. What are they up to?
By Gary Sankary | Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011
I’ve been following developments in Turkey lately, as they relate to Israel and while I rarely blog about world affairs, I feel inspired. Bare with me.
The Turks.. They straddle the Bosporus, situated between Europe and Asia, they straddle the Near East and the West in more ways than one; the Islamic world and Christian European West. For 50 years Turkey has leaned west, they’re a member of NATO for goodness sake. During the cold war Turkey was critical to our strategy of boxing in the USSR and given their location, they were perfect.
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