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    THE U.S.-TURKEY RELATIONSHIP AND ARMENIA
    By Michael Werz

    Center For American Progress
    April 5 2010

    CAP Senior Fellow Michael Werz was interviewed by Voice of America
    on April 2, 2010. The interview dealt with the recent U.S.-Turkish
    debates after the Armenia resolution was passed by the House Foreign
    Affairs Committee and with the visit of German chancellor Angela
    Merkel to Ankara, reinvigorating a Turkish push for full membership
    in the European Union.

    In the interview Werz argues that the reaction of the Turkish
    government recalling its ambassador from Washington and cancelling a
    planned visit by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has been harsher than
    necessary. Both Turkey and the United States have more to lose than
    to win when the relationship cannot be re-established to meet the
    regional challenges.

    Regarding the recent visits of the German chancellor in Ankara,
    Werz commented that the Turkish press had seen a "warming" of Angela
    Merkel toward Turkey that was hardly expected after stinging political
    exchanges between the two countries before her arrival. Not only has
    Germany vested economic interest in Turkey with 300 German companies
    establishing branches in 2009 alone, Werz argued, but even within the
    German conservative party an influential minority among foreign policy
    expert urges a review of the stiff opposition against Turkish E.U.

    membership.

    http://www.americanprogress.org /issues/2010/04/werz_voa_turkey.html
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