"Bolstering ties to Turkey
By Jill Burcum
The good news, bad news scenario on America’s approval rating in Turkey became a running gag among the journalists on the International Reporting Project’s Gatekeeper Editors’ trip in September 2008. The bad news, as delivered by a Turkish journalist, was that our nation’s approval rating stood at just 14 percent according to one recent opinion poll. The good news? It was up from an even more dismal 8 percent in an earlier poll."
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