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June 9, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/world/middleeast/09turkey.html

Turkey Goes from Pliable Ally to Thorn for U.S.

(New York Times) Sabrina Tavernise and Michael Slackman - Turkey's shifting foreign policy is making its prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a hero to the Arab world, and is openly challenging the way the U.S. manages Iran's nuclear program and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Turkey is seen increasingly in Washington as "running around the region doing things that are at cross-purposes to what the big powers in the region want," said Steven A. Cook, a scholar with the Council on Foreign Relations. The question being asked, he said, is "How do we keep the Turks in their lane?"

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