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          BYLINE: By Tulin Daloglu, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES.!

          Turkey Relieved Obama Did Not Use 'G' Word.

        1. Turkey Relieved Obama Did Not Use 'G' Word.
        2. AUTHOR'S BIO: Tulin Daloglu is the Chief Washington Correspondent of Habertürk, a television news channel and a daily paper.
        3. BYLINE: By Tulin Daloglu, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES.
        4. Gazeteci / Journalist /Anti-Groupthink / retweets are not endorsements/retweetler onama değildir.
        5. Tulin Daloglu is an independent foreign policy analyst and writer based in Ankara, Turkey.

          6. Turkey's Path to Real Democracy

          On March 1, 2003, when the Turkish Grand National Assembly turned down the U.S. request to allow the deployment of U.S. troops in Turkey, almost everyone in the Bush Administration was shocked.

          In the days leading up to the vote, nobody in Washington believed that a country like Turkey could turn down its only true ally in the Western world.

          After all, few countries are more dependent on the United States than Turkey is for support of its feeble economy and foreign policy interests — like EU membership and the Cyprus issue.

          There are still hundreds of milestones to go, but — against considerable odds — the future of democracy in Turkey is more promising than ever.

          That is even more impressive since traveling down the winding path of becoming a real democracy has yielded some painful consequences.

          With the vote of its parliament in Ankara, Turkey was not only closing its doors to U.S.

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