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[The New York Times] The rise and rise of Turkey
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The Turks like to say that whereas Iran and Israel are revisionist powers, arousing anxiety and even fear by their expansionism and their challenge to existing power structures, Turkey is a stabilizing power, intent on spreading peace and security far and wide.
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Turkey is extending its influence by diplomacy rather than force. It is also forging economic ties with its neighbors, and has offered to mediate in several persistent regional conflicts. It has, however, not hesitated to use force to quell the members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). But even here, Turkey is now using a softer approach. The PKK members have been offered an amnesty and Turkey’s influential foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, has this past week paid a visit -- the first of its kind -- to the Kurdish Regional Government in northern Iraq. There is even talk of Turkey opening a consulate in Erbil.
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07 November 2009, Saturday
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