Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Turkey's image problem - Editorials/Op-Ed - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

"Turkey's image problem

TODAY'S COLUMNIST
By Tulin Daloglu
March 14, 2006

When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appeared on Capitol Hill last week to rally support for the 2007 budget, Rep. Dave Weldon asked her about the controversial Turkish film 'The Valley of the Wolves.' '[I]t depicts American GIs murdering people at a wedding. And it's very anti-Semitic also; it has some gruesome visuals of Jews mistreating Muslims,' he said. 'It would seem to me that we may be winning on the fronts of Afghanistan and in all these other places where we're fighting, in Iraq. But for the hearts and minds of the people we are not doing very well at all. We may actually be heading in the wrong direction.' "

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