"Spurned by the West, Turkey looks eastward
Suat Kiniklioglu International Herald Tribune
ANKARA In 2002, when Tuncer Kilinc, the secretary general of Turkey's powerful National Security Council, said that the country should abandon its efforts to become a member of the European Union and turn toward its regional neighbors Russia and Iran, few Turks took him seriously."
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