Turkey hedges its bets.(Turkey's foreign policy)(Column)

USA Today (Magazine) | January 1, 1997| | Copyright

TURKEY IS IN TROUBLE. America's great friend and essential ally from the darkest days of the Korean War to the Persian Gulf War against Iraq's Saddam Hussein is facing political instability and a possible military coup. Some in the Turkish military have told parliamentarians and foreign diplomats privately that 70-year-old Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan and his Islamist-backed government will have to go.

Erbakan's disastrous public interview with Libya's Muammar el-Quadafi (notwithstanding a United Nations travel ban to Libya because of its notorious terrorist ...

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