"Turkey: An Ally No More
by Daniel Pipes
Jerusalem Post
October 28, 2009
The foreign ministers of Turkey and Syria met in Aleppo in October 2009.
'There is no doubt he is our friend,' Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, says of Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as he accuses Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman of threatening to use nuclear weapons against Gaza. These outrageous assertions point to the profound change of orientation by Turkey's government, for six decades the West's closest Muslim ally, since Erdoğan's AK party came to power in 2002."
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