One of the dogs got pretty close, but (just as he was getting ready to take a huge bite of turkey neck) that old turkey up and jumped the fence and ran down the road never to be seen again.
George Papandreou, the mild-mannered foreign minister and much less populist son of the late prime minister works hard to foster last year's rapprochement with the old antagonist, Turkey.
Iraq's Kurds, despite age-old tensions with Turkey, have also warmed their relations as trade has boomed and the looming departure of the Kurds' American protectors raises the spectre of isolation.
The 31-year-old flew out to Turkey to join his new teammates after Saturday's win over Manchester City.
Murray decided not to play in that match, but Smith said he would not put pressure on the 22-year-old to return against Turkey in July.
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Club president Jean-Claude Dassier has offered a compromise, saying he would be prepared to pave the way for the 30-year-old to leave for Turkey in 2011.
Compounding our relations with Turkey, our old Cold War NATO ally that refused to let our forces transit its territory into Northern Iraq in 2003, was Turkey's sponsorship of the Gaza-blockade-running ship.
Presentation of a turkey to the president is a 65 year old ritual, courtesy of the National Turkey Federation and the American Egg Board.
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Last November, the 50-year-old moved from Texas to Turkey to help co-ordinate aid to rebel-held areas.
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Some see it as a last-ditch attempt by Turkey's old guard to cling to power.
One girl, 13-year-old Zilan Gulsum, is Turkey's top player in her age group.
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First he broke ranks with Necmettin Erbakan, his old mentor, who was Turkey's first Islamist prime minister and was himself shoved out of power in 1997 by the country's meddlesome generals.
Bernard Matthews , the 77-year-old founder of an eponymous British turkey company, seems to have become the center of a political imbroglio.
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Worst of all, weak governments like Mr Yilmaz's are unlikely to command the courage and the political ingenuity needed to end the 14-year-old war against Kurdish guerrillas in Turkey's south-east.
When he took office in 2003 Mr Erdogan set about reversing Turkey's decades-old policy of Kurdish repression.
The argument that rejection from the EU sent Turkey towards Islamism is an old one in foreign policy circles.
Plans to give an amnesty to PKK fighters who stand aside from the terrorist group's vicious 25-year-old war have long been opposed by Turkey's hawkish generals.
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Erdogan Toprak, deputy chairman of the opposition Republican People's Party, has said the prime minister "would like to bring the sultan back" - a reference to the old days of the Ottoman Empire before Turkey become a republic.
First, the democratic tradition in Turkey is only about seventy years old.
In Turkey, 8-year-old refugee children make drawings, just like kids everywhere.
The clause re-criminalising adultery is part of a package of proposed changes to overhaul Turkey's 78-year-old penal code.
Turkey's five-month-old financial mess has made matters worse.
He has fended off complaints from Islamic-minded Turks that Turkey should be more aggressive in matching its old Russian rival to the north.
Mr Papandreou, a former foreign minister who reached out to Turkey, is mistrusted by his party's old-fashioned nationalists.
Turkey promptly shelved the protocols, reverting to its old line that they could be enacted only if Armenia withdrew from territories it occupies in Azerbaijan.
Turkey and Qatar have supported the 22-month-old uprising against Mr Assad, in which the UN says at least 60, 000 people have died.
Many argue that since Turkey is bogged down in a 28-year-old war against rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), it cannot afford military adventures elsewhere.
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At the summit, this issue ultimately boiled down to whether Turkey would agree to extend its customs agreement with the old EU the so-called Ankara agreement to cover the ten newest EU members, including Cyprus.
In fact, a sleep-eater hopped up on Ambien would be hard-pressed to taste anything strange in these mouth-watering items: Dreyer's sugar-free ice cream bars for dogs called Frosty Paws, Nestles' prepared stews that come in a Tupperware-like container, or Iams five kinds of savory sauce, roasted turkey, pot roast beef, sizzling bacon, and that old dog favorite, country-style chicken.
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