Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Hürriyet - Tufan Turenc: AKP's foot-under-the-table foreign policy strategy

"Tufan Turenc: AKP's foot-under-the-table foreign policy strategy

So, did you read the other day in Yener Susoy's report how exactly it is that Turkey's foreign policy is being handled? In an interview with Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, Susoy asks 'Do you sometimes warn the Prime Minister not to get angry?' Gul's response puts the gravity of Turkey's foreign policy situation front and center: 'I always warn him. When we are having meetings with foreigners, I sometimes even use my hand and feet to signal him. For example, at the meeting in Brussels on December 17, I kept on stepping on his feet under the table.'
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