"America's unhelpful interventions on Turkey
Jun 10th 2010, 12:40 by Charlemagne
ROBERT Gates, the American defence secretary has said on a visit to London that European hostility is pushing Turkey away from the west. Mr Gates deserves credit for saying out loud what a part of the American foreign-policy establishment has thought for a while. Alas, that is about as polite as I can be. There are several reasons why American statements on Turkey are so often fantastically unhelpful: and I write as a confirmed Atlanticist and supporter of EU accession for Turkey."
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