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Article: Turkey's unified front; Will it continue to trust the United States?(OPED)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2007
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Byline: Tulin Daloglu, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
"I looked the man in the eye... I was able to get a sense of his soul," said President Bush after his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin As awkward as it sounded then, Mr. Bush's soul is precisely what Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan must have been trying to understand at the White House yesterday.
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