"Turkish complications October 12th, 2007
From Alan Bock
So we have yet another illustration of the general rule that when you start stirring a pot somewhere in the world you’re bound to have unanticipated consequences, and some of them will be unfortunate enough to be termed “blowback.” Although there were moments of tension during the run-up to the Iraq war, Turkey has been a close ally of the U.S. for decades, and it has long-standing incentives to stay on America’s good side because it wants to be accepted into the EU (though I’m not sure that’s all that rational a desire). But on Thursday Turkey recalled its ambassador to the U.S. to return to Ankara for “emergency consultations.”"
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