"U.S.-Turkey alliance; It ain't what it used to be
By Lowell Blankfort
Second in a series by former Post co-owner Lowell Blankfort, who recently returned from a three-week reporting trip in Turkey.
For more than four decades in the last century, Turkey was America's first frontier.
Bordering the Soviet Union, Turkish soil for more than half that era held American nuclear missiles pointed at Moscow and the heart of the Soviet empire (until they were removed in return for the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba).
Today Turkey is again a front-line state for America. It borders on Iraq - and also on Iran and Syria, other crucial pieces in the Middle East power game into which Washington has intruded itself."
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