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Turkey could be America’s most important regional ally, above Iraq, even above Israel, if both sides manage the relationship correctly.


  • Daily Press Briefing – March 24, 2014

    Daily Press Briefing – March 24, 2014

    Daily Press Briefing – March 24, 2014 03/24/2014 06:57 PM EDT Marie Harf Deputy Spokesperson Daily Press Briefing Washington, DC March 24, 2014 QUESTION: Do you […]

  • ELECTION DAY: TURKEY’S RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH

    ELECTION DAY: TURKEY’S RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH

    I have a rendezvous with death…John F. Kennedy’s favorite poem. From war hero to “cold warrior,” then on to late-life enlightenment as president of the United States. He saw the lunacy of war and the chance for “peace in all time.” And so did his “enemy” embodied by Nikita Krushchev. And for that, on 22…

  • PEA-BRAINS ON PARADE

    PEA-BRAINS ON PARADE

    17 March 2014 Today, the Black Sea rages red. Today, the missiles of the west tremble in anticipation. And today, the Turkish navy sends a […]

  • RECEP DECEIT ERDOĞAN

    RECEP DECEIT ERDOĞAN

    In your repetition, in your ranting, you bore me immensely and to tears. Yet in your supernatural excess, you never fail to astonish. Now a hunted man, who curses stars for giving light to darkness, you cannot control your rotting tongue.

  • THE SICK JOKE

    THE SICK JOKE

    Oh fabulous farce, the art of the improbable, the exaggerated, the ludicrous, the bizarre, the brazen and often the stupid, the essence of what Turks once called democracy, a word they dare not now pronounce. Still, aren’t we all so lucky to be living in Turkey? Sure we are. Turkey, the land of politicians that…

  • ISTANBUL: US naval destroyer heading to Black Sea

    ISTANBUL: US naval destroyer heading to Black Sea

    ISTANBUL — A U.S. Navy destroyer is passing through Istanbul’s Bosporus straits on its way to the Black Sea for exercises near the fraught Crimean […]