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Turkish-American Relations With Barack Obama
Turkish-American Relations With Barack Obama

Author(s): İhsan Bal
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: USAK (Uluslararası Stratejik Araştırmalar Kurumu)

Summary/Abstract: One may easily see the breeze of happiness blowing in a global sense from Latin America to the Middle East after the presidential elections in the US. Turkey is not an exception. People of Gurtepe village, in Van, sacrificed 44 sheep for the appraisal of Obama’s lection as the 44th president of the US. This is just one of the examples that people showing their hopes and expectations from the new term in the US foreign policy. After experiencing democracy and liberal ideas to lose ground in George W. Bush’s term, everybody is hoping for stability and peace, at least efforts of US diplomacy in this framework.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 491-501
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English