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Article: Turkish travails: though Turkey is now considered a main U.S. ally in the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy is driving a wedge between the countries.(FOREIGN POLICY)
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- The New American
- Article date:
- November 26, 2007
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Quick! Which NATO member has the largest military, after the United States? Not Great Britain, whose Royal Navy once ruled the waves. Not Germany, the inventors of guided missiles and modern tank warfare. Not even former colonial powers Spain and Holland. The largest military in NATO, fielding over one million active personnel and an impressive array of modern equipment ranging from a large fleet of F-16s to cutting-edge frigates and corvettes in one of the world's largest navies, is the Turk Silahli Kuvvetleri, or Turkish Armed Forces of the Republic of Turkey.
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Past Is Prologue
Nowadays Turkey is regarded as a strong ...