"'Full throated support'
Friday, January 18, 2008
Yusuf KANLI
For the George W. Bush administration, the 'March 1 syndrome' in Turkish-American relations was 'long dead and buried,' but the Nov. 5 visit of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the consequent Jan. 8 trip to Washington by President Abdullah Gül and the accelerated anti-terrorism cooperation of the two countries have helped to eradicate the remaining psychological effects and replace relations between the two countries on a 'strategic partners' basis. Indeed, the stress on 'strategic partners' made by Bush 'who hates that terminology' three times after the meeting with Gül was a demonstration of that... "
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