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Turkey Geo-Strategy

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Istanbul on Turkey's "identity crisis." Long the southeastern anchor of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...NATO...Turkey was part of the West's Soviet Union containment policy. But, the Cold War is over, Turkey is surrounded by unfriendly countries and the new prime minister comes from a pro-Islamic party.

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