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May 22, 2009

The AKP’s Foreign Policy: The Misnomer of “Neo-Ottomanism”

By the Washington Institute for Near East Policy

The AKP’s Foreign Policy: The Misnomer of “Neo-Ottomanism”

From the Washington Institute for Near East Policy: "The AKP’s Econo-Islamist foreign policy orientation has turned Turkey into a country which has as good, and sometimes even friendlier, relations with Iran, Russia, Syria, Sudan, Hamas, Hezbollah, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, as it enjoys with the United States, the EU, and Israel. Ankara will likely opt out of a NATO consensus on Iran, clash with the United States on how to handle Hamas and Hezbollah, and disagree with the EU and the U.S. on Russia."  via worldtribune.com, (graphic: European Voice)

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