"Turkey looks east and makes waves
The Muslim nation is in NATO and a candidate to join the European Union. But it's busy making inroads to the east, a region looking for and suspicious Reporting from Istanbul, Turkey —
Turkey has long been a map of possibility — its eastern fringes touching Iraq and its western borders brushing Europe, a place where the music of Beethoven played amid the call to prayer.
of fresh leadership."
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