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Friday, January 20, 2012

Soap-Opera Week for Turkey-U.S. Relations Underlines Partnership’s Strength - Emerging Europe Real Time - WSJ

Soap-Opera Week for Turkey-U.S. Relations Underlines Partnership’s Strength

By Joe Parkinson

ISTANBUL—This week may have started a little uncomfortably for Turkey-U.S. relations, but it ended with something akin to a diplomatic love-in.

Rewind to Monday, and Texas governor and presidential hopeful Rick Perry was causing outrage across Turkey, claiming the country was ruled by “what many perceive to be Islamic terrorists,” and suggesting it should be booted out of NATO.

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