"Tend to Turkey
Author:
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations
Fall 2007
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
In the wake of the Iraq debacle, the United States will occupy a position of greatly diminished stature and leverage among the many allies that stepped forward to offer unqualified support immediately after September 11, 2001. No relationship has been more badly damaged in this relatively short period of time, or is in greater need of repair, than the alliance between the United States and Turkey. Although America's standing has declined precipitously across Europe, Turkey is the one NATO country at risk of becoming strategically unmoored. "
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