Erdogan Should Back Geneva II Conference on Syria

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan could benefit Turkey by supporting the Geneva conference, not clinging to failing regime-change policies.
Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan address an audience during the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's (EBRD) 2013 Annual Meeting and Business Forum in Istanbul May 10, 2013. Erdogan said Turkey would support a U.S.-enforced no-fly zone in Syria and warned that Damascus crossed President Barack Obama's "red line" on chemical weapons use long ago, according to an NBC News interview released Thursday. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - RTXZH9Z
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses an audience in Istanbul, May 10, 2013. - REUTERS/Osman Orsal
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It was the night before Iraqis cast their votes for a new Iraq on Jan. 30, 2005, for the first time after Saddam Hussein was deposed, and I was an embedded journalist at Camp Victory in Baghdad to witness the process.

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