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Although it has long provided the base for Anglo-American missions policing the northern "no-fly" zone over Iraq, the Turkish government has little enthusiasm for a new confrontation - and the recent election victory of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party has raised concerns in Washington that Turkey may not offer strong support for a U.S. war effort. President Bush will try to change that when he meets the Turkish leader at the White House Tuesday. Erdogan's party has been portrayed as a moderate Islamist group - a characterization the party firmly rejects - and that together with traditional...
...interview with TIME's Tony Karon, Erdogan's foreign policy adviser Egemen Bagis says that Turkey will abide by any UN resolution on Iraq. And that Ankara's own priority is winning continued U.S. backing for Turkey's efforts to join the European Union...
...TIME: When Chairman Erdogan meets with President Bush, the U.S. will presumably be asking Turkey to allow greater deployments of U.S. personnel on Turkish soil in the event of war with Iraq. What is the outlook of the Justice and Development Party on the question of Iraq...
...knowledge, no. This matter has not been discussed yet. It might be discussed when Chairman Erdogan visits the White House...
Elected mayor of Istanbul in 1994, Erdogan banned alcohol from city-owned cafes but also managed to resurrect a failing freshwater supply and clear the trash from the city's cobblestone streets. Rusen Cakir, Erdogan's biographer, stresses the politician's provincial upbringing and working-class values. "Unlike Erbakan, who was a spiritual father," he says, "Erdogan is more familiar, like a brother." Aslihan Dede, 21, a student journalist wearing a Muslim head scarf in Istanbul said last week, "He is one of us." He is also, says Cakir, a pragmatist: "He is Muslim, but he is looking...