"TURKEY – VATICAN
Erdogan’s wavering and Turkey’s Janus-faced identity
by Mavi Zambak
Turkey’s PM changes his mind and is now prepared to meet Benedict XVI at Ankara Airport, but his indecisiveness dissatisfies both Islamo-nationalists and secular Kemalists. Security arrangements, meanwhile, are being stepped up.
Ankara (AsiaNews) – Turks are increasingly dismayed by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s yo-yo attitude towards the Pope’s visit. After repeatedly saying he was not going to meet Benedict XVI during the latter’s trip to Turkey because of his commitment to go to Estonia for a NATO meeting, a government spokesman announced yesterday that the Turkish authorities were working with the Vatican to ensure that the Prime Minister and the Pope would meet at an airport in the capital on November 28 before the start of the NATO summit in Riga."
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