Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Is Turkey leaving the West?

"Is Turkey leaving the West?

Soner Çağaptay

In early October, Turkey withdrew an invitation to Israel for the Anatolian Eagle, an annual Turkish Air Force exercise that it has been held with Israel, NATO and the United States since the mid-1990s. It marked the first time Turkey's governing Justice and Development Party, or 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."

ore:Is Turkey leaving the West? - Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review