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The United States and Turkish relations and the challenges ahead.(LEGISLATION AND POLICY)

Publication: DISAM Journal
Publication Date: 01-JUL-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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[The following are excerpts of the testimony presented to the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Europe, Washington, D.C., March 15, 2007.]

United States Secretary of State Rice instructed me to seek to shift the focus of the United States and Turkey relationship from just to...

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...managing challenges finding ways the United States (U.S.) and Turkey can work together in the world on issues where we agree. Turkey, a majority Muslim state, with a tradition of secular governance, a deepening democracy and a thriving free market is of strategic importance to the United States. Its legacy of modernization can inspire people throughout the broader Middle East

Washington and Ankara have developed a blueprint to invigorate our bilateral relations, the Shared Vision statement that Secretary Rice and Foreign Minister Gul concluded last July. We have made progress implementing the statement, though much work remains and in Turkey, as you said, sir, public anti-Americanism remains at a historic high. We have made steady progress over the past two years in elevating U.S. and Turkish relations from their low point on March 1, 2003, when the Turkish parliament voted not to allow U.S. forces to deploy through Turkey to Iraq. Today, Turkey does support U.S. objectives in Iraq and has urged us...

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