Center for American Progress Paper Says It Is Time to Deal with the Turkey We Have, Not the One We Want

U.S. President George H.W. Bush meets with Turkish President Turgut Özal prior to talks in Ankara on July 20, 1991. Source: AP

Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2015.  As a NATO member and majority-Muslim, secular democracy, Turkey has often been held up as a model partner to the United States and a model for the wider Middle East. As such, the United States has long attached great hopes to cooperation with Turkey in the pursuit of…