"Increasingly self-confident Turkey of Istanbul versus Ankara-Brussels
Cengiz Candar
ccandar@superonline.com
24 November 2006
The World Economic Forum-Istanbul has been a display of Turkey's growing self-confidence and positive international image as an emerging political player in Eurasian geopolitics and as a relatively economic heavyweight in the same crucially important zone of the globalized international economy. The presidents, prime ministers, officials and prominent businessmen and journalists from a score of countries covering a vast geography from the Baltics to the Balkans all the way to the Transcaucusus and the Middle East were all there in Istanbul's Ciragan Palace."
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