"Improved U.S.-Turkish Relations Are Vital to Better Security in the Persian Gulf and Middle East, RAND Study Finds
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The United States can take a major step in improving the security environment in the Middle East and Persian Gulf by giving new impetus to revitalizing its security partnership with Turkey, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today.
The study finds that Turkey plays a critical role in four areas of increasing strategic importance to the United States: the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, Europe, and the Caucasus and Central Asia region. Turkey's cooperation in each area is needed to achieve U.S. policy goals.
As a result, revitalizing the U.S.-Turkish security partnership should be a top U.S. foreign policy goal, said study author F. Stephen Larrabee, who holds the Distinguished Chair in European Security at RAND, a nonprofit research organization."
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