Posted on 06/22/2007 3:35:39 AM PDT by Flavius
Indeed, as Larrabee points out, "Ankara has established close ties with Iran and Syria," two countries with which relations had been strained during the past two decades. Additionally, the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has adopted a more sympathetic view of the Palestinian issue, much to the detriment of Israel, with which Turkey had enjoyed more than cordial relations.
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