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Turkey is finding itself a place in the new world
In 1967, when the United States and Turkey were at odds over Cyprus, President Lyndon Johnson wrote a letter to Prime Minister İsmet İnönü threatening to block Turkish warships from sailing to the island.
İnönü in reply told the U.S. president that if the world falls apart “Turkey will find itself a place in the new world.”
Today, after five…