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red in US President Barack Obama recent speech at the State Department when he referred to the "promise of the future."
come of negotiations, rather than a precondition. State Department officials are skeptical, but they should test the
especially one that would look to Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) for political guidance. However, the Turks
ld of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, the State Department poured hundreds of millions into a new public- di
ination of a long process of deterioration and makes foes of two countries whose relationship was once heralded as groundbreaking and strategic. The Justice and Development Party government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had begun to sour on Israel following Israel’s incursion into Gaza in late 2008. Erdogan was miffed
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025002 →, as well as deliver a major speech on Middle East policy. But the resignation didn't come as a surprise to those who worked closest with Mitchell. A State Department official described to Newsweek a man increasingly annoyed by both parties' constant moving of the goal posts and the constraints of the administratio
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031842 →ncident for Turkey. As part of its neo-Ottoman drive to enhance its influence in the Middle Eastern territory of the former Ottoman Empire the ruling Justice and development Party, or AKP, government of Turkey has long waived visa requirement in travel between Turkey and Syria. The aim behind that move was to plant the seeds of
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