"President Medvedev’s visit to Turkey: high expectations
Hüseyin Bağci
By Hüseyin Bağci, Professor of International Relations at Middle East Technical University, Ankara; TV and Radio Commentator in Turkey and а columnist for The New Anatolian, guest prof at Humboldt University in Berlin
The forthcoming visit of President Medvedev to Ankara is being expected with a great sense of anticipation and respect. There has never been a time in the past 150 years when the image of Russia was as positive in Turkey as it is now, as public surveys indicate. In the first years following the break-up of the Soviet Union, the Turkish-Russian relations, freed of ideological constraints, made a dramatic improvement. The 1990s were the “construction years,” not only because Turkish construction companies became actively involved in infrastructure projects in Russia, as well as in the new states in the Caucasus and Central Asia, but also in the fields of politics, culture, the economy and social programs."
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