Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Turkey’s Rise and the Decline of Pan-Arabism - Project Syndicate

"Turkey’s Rise and the Decline of Pan-Arabism
Shlomo Ben-Ami

TEL AVIV – The deadly fiasco of the Turkish-led “peace flotilla” to Gaza highlighted the deepening strain in the Israeli-Turkish alliance. But it mainly helped expose the deeper, underlying reasons for Turkey’s shift from its Western orientation toward becoming a major player in the Middle East – in alliance with the region’s rogue regimes and radical non-state actors."

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