First off this is freakin Insight magazine. There right up there with DEBKA sometimes on getting stuff right. The relationship with the Turks is worth salvaging. We have been great allies for years. Also they have a big history of Secularlism.
and a history with fake democracy with corruption and Turkey's military in the dark of controlling the government. What was those years which criticizing the military as well as discussing Armenian genocide was a taboo, with possibilities being put on court for anti-patriotic law. I've done my homework.
Turkey has never been reliable. My father spent many years there, and every so often he and his company would have to leave and go to Greece because the Turks had decided - either because of an upsurge of Communisim or an upsurge of Islamism - that they hated America.
Right now Turkey is under the gun from Islamics, and that, coupled with their blatant deviousness in denying us passage over their territory at the last minute in the onset of the Iraq war, is very reasonable justification for this.