a public talk by: ELIZABETH SHERWOOD-RANDALL, Senior Research Scholar, Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation; Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations, Council on Foreign Relations
Busch Hall, Lower Level Conference Room
27 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Directions
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As a model of a democratizing and secular Muslim state that has been a
stalwart ally for more than 50 years, Turkey is of enormous strategic
importance to the United States and Europe, especially at a time when
the widening chasm between the West and the Islamic world looms as the
greatest foreign policy challenge. Yet Ankara's relations with
Washington are strained - over Iraq, Cyprus, Syria, Iran and Hamas - and
Turkey's prospects for joining the European Union remain uncertain.
America and Europe must do everything they can to ensure that Turkey
remains firmly anchored in the West.


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Jason Beerman
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