"Turkey and the Western Question
09:00 Mon 25 Sep 2006 - Polina Slavcheva
The Director of Programmes of the Institute for Regional and International Studies Marin Lessenski comments on Turkey’s cooling toward the EU and the US:
Turkey has been steadily moving away from the West in recent years and pursuing its own policy that some experts refer to as Eurasian, and the Transatlantic public opinion survey of 12 European countries and the US showed that Turkish people approve that. The downward trend in Turkey-US relations was there since the Iraqi war, when Turkey denied American troops access to its territory. Americans were then mad at Turkey, to say the least, and further frictions followed when Turkey warmed to Syria and Iran. Turkey has recently also developed a security co-operation with Iran. And this year, the US named Iran security threat number one."
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