February 13, 2012
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[Financial Times] Vote undermines Obama’s Turkey strategy
6 March 2010 / ,
When Barack Obama, US president, took time out last year to visit Ankara and İstanbul he hailed the US’s relationship with Turkey as a “model partnership.”
On Thursday, after Ankara recalled its ambassador to Washington in protest at a vote by a congressional panel, Mr Obama’s bid to strengthen that partnership faced its biggest test. The ties between the two countries are at the heart of much of the Obama administration’s strategy and have occupied much of the time of the US’s top diplomats, from Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, down. The US has hailed Turkish political system as a model for much of the Muslim world. US policy acknowledges as a starting point that Ankara has growing influence throughout the Middle East, maintains Nato’s second biggest army, hosts important US military bases and is increasing in self-confidence in global affairs.
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