Monday, October 26, 2009

Is Turkey Leaving the West?

"Is Turkey Leaving the West?
By Soner Cagaptay
Foreign Affairs, October 26, 2009

In early October, Turkey disinvited Israel from Anatolian Eagle, an annual Turkish air force exercise that it had held with Israel, NATO, and the United States since the mid-1990s. It marked the first time Turkey's governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) let its increasingly anti-Western rhetoric spill into its foreign policy strategy, and the move may suggest that Turkey's continued cooperation with the West is far from guaranteed."

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