MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti commentator Dmitry...
up to this role but for its improved financial capabilities. At their meeting, Presidents Gul and Zardari initiated the restoration of the Islamabad - Istanbul railroad, which will pass through Teheran, a project requiring $20 billion in investment.Turkey is one of the few states able to stay on good terms with the West, Russia and Iran. In the past two years Turkish diplomats managed to prove that a government can develop cooperation on all directions. Ankara has interacted with the West without risking trouble for its relations with other civilized states. A NATO member and a U.S. ally, last year Turkey successfully negotiated visa-free regulations with Syria, the country that Washington calls the sponsor of international terrorism and viewed as its most probable military target after Iraq.
However, Ankara did not accomplish its objectives effortlessly. In the late 1990s it threatened Syria with war demanding that Damask expels Kurdish militants" leader Abdullah
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