"Drawing Borders with Other People’s Blood: A Brief Comment on Ralph Peters’s 'Blood Borders'
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Wednesday , 19 July 2006
by Barin Kayaoglu
Prominent novelist and author U.S. Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters (Ret.) has recently published a controversial op-ed in the Armed Forces Journal titled “Blood Borders: How a Better Middle East Would Look.”1 The piece caused a controversy among Turkish intellectual circles to the point of re-examining the fundamentals of Turkish-American relations and America’s motives in the region. The implications of this controversy for the Middle East in general, and U.S.-Turkish relations in particular, must be analyzed more closely. "
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