UID:
kobvindex_DGP1641134615
Format:
Lit. S. 142-144
ISSN:
0039-6338
Content:
The alliance between the United States and Turkey, which has endured since the promulgation of the Truman Doctrine in 1947, is in serious trouble. Some of Turkey's foreign-policy options involve reducing its reliance on the United States, or even turning away from Washington and deepening ties with America's competitors. Accompanying Turkish discussions about a new strategic orientation has been the growth of a deep anti-Western, and specifically anti-American, mood - one that now shapes the thinking of Turks, regardless of political persuasion. Talk of strategic recalculation might simply be empty rhetoric from a Turkey that is angry and wants Washington to notice, but the wisest course would be to take steps to ensure the continued vitality of an alliance that both Ankara and Washington need to deal effectively with unfamiliar dangers. America's preoccupation with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Turkey's anger over American policies should not obscure this larger picture. (Survival / SWP)
In:
Survival, Philadelphia, Pa. [u.a.] : Routledge, 1959, 49(2007), 2, Seite 129-144, 0039-6338
Language:
English
