Monday, June 14, 2010

Turkey: Stealth superpower


By John Feffer
Asia Times

"Turkey's "zero problems with neighbors" foreign policy and internal reform have seen it emerge from an era of subservience to become a quintessential rising middle power, evident from its high-profile interventions in the Gaza-aid debacle, the Iran nuclear crisis and elsewhere. Taken alongside its pivotal place in world energy politics and "soft power" expansion into the Arab world, and the signs suggest a China-like rise towards 21st-century superpower status...."

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