"Living happily, and Turkishly, ever after
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
BURAK BEKDİL
In one of his speeches, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said that “Turkey and Iran share a very long, common history.” And in another he said that “a common destiny, a common history, a common future is the slogan of Turkey and Syria.” And in another, “we have a common history, a common destiny and a common future, as well as cooperation between Greece and Turkey,” prompting this columnist to wonder which countries in the world Turkey does not have a common destiny, common history and common future with. Most recently, as crowds in the rebel-controlled Benghazi, Libya, chanted “Erdoğan, Turkey, Muslim,” Mr. Davutoğlu told them “we have a common history and a future.”"
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