Next Up: Turkey vs. Iran
By Soner Cagaptay
NYTimes.com, February 14, 2012
Turkish-Iranian rivalry in the Fertile Crescent has opened up
a can of worms.
Hardly a day goes by that an Iranian official doesn't threaten Turkey. Take for instance Maj. Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi's recent warning to Ankara: "Turkey must radically rethink its policies on Syria, the NATO missile shield and promoting Muslim secularism in the Arab world, or face trouble from its own people and neighbors."
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