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US magazine includes Turkish FM in "Kissingers list"

10 March 2010 [18:52] - TODAY.AZ
U.S. Foreign Policy magazine included Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in its world's four Kissingers list.
FP is foreign policy, diplomacy and strategy magazine of Washington Post-Newsweek group.

The magazine listed four figures under "World's Kissingers" which took its name from Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger, former State Secretary of U.S., who was an influential name in U.S. foreign policy for over 50 years and architect of many important international initiatives.

FP states, "a country's foreign policy is often defined less by its elected leader than its behind-the-scenes operators and elder statesmen. There are four figures setting the global agenda for the world's emerging powers, just as Henry Kissinger set U.S.'s for over 50 years."

The magazine, which included Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoglu in the list, wrote for him as, "a keen student of history, the brash and outspoken Davutoglu believes in restoring Turkey's Ottoman glories so that Turkey once again carries weight in the Middle East. Under his guidance, Turkey has strengthened its ties with Arab governments and sought to play the role of mediator in Arab-Israeli conflicts."

Noting that Davutoglu supported Turkey's eventual membership in the European Union, FP quoted him as "Turkey can be European in Europe, and Eastern in the East because we are both."

Singapore's former prime minister 86-year-old Lee Kuan Yew "who shepherded Singapore to unprecedented economic growth", Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim "who managed the nigh-impossible balancing act between the United States and Brazil's leftist neighbors in Venezuela and Cuba", and Saudi Arabia's former ambassador to Britain and the United States as well as ex-director of the Saudi foreign-intelligence service Turki al-Faisal "who worked as ambassador to the United States in the years following September 11 attacks" are the other three figures in the list.

Foreign Policy is a bimonthly magazine founded in 1970. It won the 2009, 2007, and 2003 National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Its topics include global politics, economics, integration and ideas.



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