Bulent Aliriza

Director of the Turkey Project, Center for International and Strategic Studies

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Director of the Turkey Project at the Center for International and Strategic Studies and host of Beyond the Atlantic, a current affairs program which airs on Turkish Radio and Television

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In his first presidential visit to a Muslim country today, Barack Hussein Obama addressed a special session of the Turkish parliament.

Barack Hussein Obama and the Muslim World

In his first presidential visit to a Muslim country today, Barack Hussein Obama addressed a special session of the Turkish parliament.

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In his first visit to a Muslim country as President, Barack Obama told the Turkish parliament today, the US “is not and will never be at war with Islam.”

Obama in Turkey Reaches Out to the Islamic World

In his first visit to a Muslim country as President, Barack Obama told the Turkish parliament today, the US “is not and will never be at war with Islam.”

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