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The End of the Turkish-American ‘Alliance’ after the Failed Coup?

Opinion
Second, and more critically for Turkish-American relations, there is also a broad agreement, including both right and left wing, conservative and secular journalists in Turkey, that the Gülenists were cultivated and nurtured by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Cold War, both as a staunchly anti-Soviet and pro-American movement, and as an instrument with which to discipline the Turkish state and society while constructing a new kind of “moderate Islam.

New Stage in EU Enlargement: Negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova

World
Of course, the geopolitical importance of these two countries, in particular the benefits that their close links with both the Mediterranean and Latin America would bring to the EEC in these regions, and the success of the previous enlargement policy were taken into account by the EEC countries, and the negative view of the accession process of these two countries changed and they became members in 1986.