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Turkey Drifts Away
September 24, 2010 / Bruce Stokes
National Journal
Add Turkey to the Obama administration’s lengthening list of foreign-policy headaches.
This Islamic country that straddles Europe and Asia is rapidly drifting out of the Western orbit—notwithstanding recent overwhelming voter approval of a constitutional reform package that the government hailed as enhancing Turkish democracy by promoting gender equality and abolishing the legal immunity enjoyed by the 1983 military coup’s leaders. Polling results released this week by the German Marshall Fund confirm earlier findings by other surveys that the Turks’ commitment to NATO and their desire to join the European Union are waning. Turkey’s ties with the United States have never recovered from their collapse after the Iraq war thanks to the Turks’ opposition to the war. And, in disturbing news for Washington, the Turkish people are increasingly looking toward the Middle East and Iran.
