Turkey at key moment in region
Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the George McGovern Leadership Award ceremony at the State Department in Washington October 24, 2011. troops uk canada goose outlet leave by the year end.
Tony Blinken, Biden top foreign policy adviser, said buy canada goose jacket in addition to discussing the turmoil in Syria and Turkey strained relations with Israel, the vice president would also talk about the fight against Kurdish PKK rebels, who he called a canada goose enemy of Turkey and the United States.
Biden will meet in Turkey with Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul. Aside from those talks the main public event of his trip is a Global Entrepreneurship summit in Istanbul on Saturday, which the United States hopes will promote a merchant class that can help deliver economic Canada Goose sale and political change in the Arab world.
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The Obama administration has placed a premium on close ties with Turkey a NATO member on a vital frontier between Europe, Asia and the Middle East and Biden trip comes at a time of tumult in canada goose uk outlet the region after the Arab Spring.
Turkey, a former canada goose uk black friday friend but now a canada goose uk shop sharp critic of Syrian President Bashar al Assad, said last week it was ready to canada goose factory sale take action with Arab powers if he fails to take steps to end a bloody crackdown on pro democracy demonstrators.
The Arab League on Sunday slapped punitive economic sanctions on Damascus. Last week, Erdogan told Assad to quit or risk the same fate as Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, killed by rebels Canada Goose online last month. ambassador to Turkey.
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Papademos, a former central canada goose canada goose outlet black friday sale banker, was sworn in this month and aims to canada goose clearance steer Greece out of a devastating canada goose coats gestiontb on sale debt crisis that could unravel the wider euro zone and tip the United States back into recession.
United States recognizes the sacrifices being made Canada Goose Outlet by the Greek people as they pursue this reform process, said White House economic adviser Mike Froman. But he made clear Canada Goose Coats On Sale that Biden was not bringing additional financial support beyond Canada Goose Parka the European Union/IMF package already in place.
Washington says the Europeans have the resources they need to shore up cheap canada goose uk their banking system and bail out Greece, and cheap Canada Goose protect Spain and Italy from speculative attack. So Biden will go to Athens with warm words but no actual resources.
have really no ability to change any of the dynamics of the debt crisis, or how the Europeans are going to resolve this one way or another, said Heather canada goose store Conley, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. other than a lot of encouragement. we just don have a role here.
There are other issues to discuss, including Cyprus and the need to keep tensions in check around oil and Canada Goose Online gas exploration in the Eastern Mediterranean, where Cyprus plans to issue exploration licenses in defiance of Turkey. But the debt crisis is likely to dominate the visit.