"Turkey: The growing power
Gavin Hewitt | 17:32 UK time, Wednesday, 30 March 2011
In the era of awakenings, upheavals and revolutions: watch Turkey.
It has become a hugely ambitious country, bristling with self-belief. In a turbulent Middle East it believes it is the democratic role model. It eyes the role as spokesman for the region as a whole. When disputes need to be settled, it offers itself as the mediator. The State Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek summed it up: 'Everybody has to see Turkey's power.'"
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