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Article: Turkey: Ankara reorients. (Outlook 1993)
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- The Middle East
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- January 1, 1993
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Turkey's role in Nato is diminishing with the end of the Cold War, and it is looking hard for a new role. Ankara has for a long time sought closer integration into Europe, but it is also lured by Central Asia. Mustak Parker recently interviewed Turkey's foreign minister, Hikmet Cetin.
THE DIPLOMATIC TRAFFIC in and out of Ankara these days is hectic. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the largely Turkic-speaking Central Asian republics has seen Turkey adopt a changing role in the region. Istanbul has now become a summit capital with unsure leaders in the region from Tirana to Ulan Bator, happily seeking tutelage from the seasoned "Suleiman Baba", as ...