Word: diplomatized
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...treasonable offense, Erdogan has tested the line dividing acceptable fervor from revolution. His background--he is a onetime Islamic youth activist who sent his own children to study in the U.S.--mirrors a broader contradiction in Turkish society. "He is about to show us," said one senior Western diplomat, "what Islamic politics means in Turkey...
...Muslim, but he is looking for a new deal." Erdogan sent two daughters to Indiana University in part to evade Turkey's prohibition against wearing Muslim head scarves in public universities. But he also admires American education. "He could have sent them to Tehran," notes a Western diplomat. "That says...
...special forces, for example, and the Czechs on chemical-warfare protection. But is it a NATO force or an E.U. force? Well, most of the equipment shortfalls plaguing the E.U. are the same ones NATO has identified. "Getting airlift helps both the E.U. and NATO," says a European diplomat at NATO. "The concepts are complementary." Others aren't quite so sure. Though the NATO force is geared for actual combat rather than the lower-intensity peacekeeping missions the E.U. envisions, says Rob de Wijk, a security expert at the Clingendael Institute in the Hague, Washington's proposal is "a clear...
...bases to NATO planes. The decision wasn't easy; Hungary was at that time the only NATO member bordering Yugoslavia, and a large population of ethnic Hungarians live in that country's Vojvodina region. "That was a big tick on the positive side of the ledger," says a Western diplomat in Budapest. But then Hungary's brilliance began to fade. Among the criticisms: the sorry state of the country's troops and matériel, the lack of transparency in the way military contracts were doled out, and Hungary's lukewarm contribution to the war on terror. "We wasted three...
...dictator whose rule is premised on the idea of fearsome, unlimited power has to contend with the spectacle of being forced to open his front door at any hour of the night and allow his home to be searched by an unprepossessing, bespectacled 74-year-old Swedish diplomat and his team of arms inspectors. Iraqis could start getting ideas...