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Obama to visit Turkey, key on Iraq, Afghanistan (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News) |
For one of his first foreign visits, President Barack Obama will call on NATO ally Turkey, an overwhelmingly Muslim country viewed as critical to aiding the U.S. pullout from Iraq, turning around the Afghanistan war and blocking Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The invasion of Iraq has strained the long friendship between the U.S. and Turkey, a Western-style democracy that straddles Europe …
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