The United States and Turkey have been locked in a strange mating ritual since September 11. The Pentagon plays the ardent suitor — making offers that meet with skepticism, admiring Turkey’s democratic trappings and secular state — to Turkey’s coy coquette. “It’s like a lover who promises everything to get the girl. But when it […]
Laura Peterson
Laura Peterson is a reporter at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in Washington, D.C. She reported from Turkey in 2000 as a Pew Fellow in International Journalism.