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Monday, October 07, 2013

Turkey, India revive defence cooperation agreement | TwoCircles.net

Turkey, India revive defence cooperation agreement
Submitted by admin4 on 7 October 2013 - 9:59pm

India News

By Tarun Basu, IANS,

Ankara : Turkey and India, both secular and pluralist democracies, are finally - nearly 20 years after it was first proposed -moving towards aligning their strategic outlooks by "moving forward" on finalising a defence cooperation agreement.

As Indian President Pranab Mukherjee wound up a three-day visit to Turkey, a good 15 years after the visit of the last president here, authorities said Turkey appeared to be moving away from some of its old thinking - especially on issues like Pakistan and Kashmir - and warming up to India's importance and potential as a rising power.

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