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In what should amaze almost no one the politician Obama admires the most, in that part of the world is Erdogan.

http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2011/1...ca-and-israel/

http://www.cagaptay.com/10702/obama-...ared-interests

From news article:
Today, however, the United States and Turkey are on a honeymoon, with President Obama and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan having formed what is probably the best relationship between a U.S. president and a Turkish prime minister in decades. The shifting political winds across the Middle East are also bringing Turkey and the United States closer than they have been since their falling-out in 2003 over the Iraq war.

Obama and Erdogan seem to have really hit it off: Turkish media outlets reported that after Erdogan's mother died last month, Obama was among the world leaders who called him and that the two "spoke for 45 minutes about their feelings." This personal rapport is the foundation of the new U.S.-Turkish relationship.


It took time and hard work to get to this point. Until last year, Turkey's relationship with Washington was wavering: Ankara's Iran policy was oscillating, which often challenged Washington's efforts to impose internationally backed sanctions on Tehran.