A New U.S.-Turkey Partnership?
Interviewee: Stephen J. Hadley, United States Institute of Peace
Interviewer: Toni Johnson, Senior Editor/Senior Staff Writer
May 8, 2012
The United States' decades-long ties with Turkey, which have stressed security and strategic arrangements, have the potential to become a robust economic and diplomatic partnership, especially in the Middle East and Central Asia regions, according to a new CFR Task Force report on U.S.-Turkey relations. Turkey's dramatic political and economic changes of the last decade make it ripe for a stronger collaboration with the United States, but the terms of the relationship need to be changed, says Stephen Hadley, co-chair of the new report. "We have to really meet as equals. We have to respect each other's national interests," he says. "We need to be very transparent with one another. We need to have a sort of 'no surprises' rule in our foreign policy." Hadley says while the report is laudatory about Turkey's gains, it also is frank about the country's continued democratic challenges.
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