Guest Post: Steven Cook and Anya Schmemann on the U.S.-Turkey Relations Task Force Report
by Guest Blogger for James M. Lindsay
May 8, 2012
On Sunday, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan visited a Syrian refugee camp in southeastern Turkey and declared that the Assad regime’s days are numbered. Over the last few months, Turkey has taken a leadership role confronting the crisis in next door Syria.
As a new CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force report on Turkey released today notes, Turkey’s position on Syria is consistent with Ankara’s increasingly active role in the Middle East. The Task Force report also takes stock of Turkey’s recent political, social, and economic transformations, and how these developments have affected Turkish foreign policy.
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