David Ignatius column: Obama's friend in Ankara
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WIN David Ignatius
By: JournalNow Staff | Winston-Salem Journal
As President Barack Obama was feeling his way in foreign policy during his first months in office, he decided to cultivate a friendship with Turkey's headstrong prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Over the past year, this investment in Turkey has begun to pay some big dividends — anchoring U.S. policy in a region that sometimes seems adrift.
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