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Friday, October 30, 2009

Turkey Addresses its Soft Power Deficit

"Turkey Addresses its Soft Power Deficit
Judah Grunstein | Bio | 30 Oct 2009

Great stuff, as usual, from Yigal Schleifer, on the ways in Turkey's foreign policy ambitions are driving Ankara to resolve formerly taboo issues. For Turkey, the lingering standoffs with Armenia, the Kurds (both domestically and in Iraq), and in Cyprus significantly diminish Ankara's credibility on a number of fronts: as an EU aspirant, as a regional power able to mediate crises, and as a regional authority (in political terms)."

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