The country was born out of struggle - the struggle to maintain some kind of territorial integrity at the end of World War I as the Allies decided to carve up Anatolia and walk away with it themselves.
The way I've described it to people in the past has been if you've ever seen any of the documentaries of World War II when the Allies were bombing Europe, that's what the level of destruction looked like.
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At the end of World War I the victorious Allies thought they had dealt decisively with German military power.
In the Pew poll, the rise in the number of those who support war if allies agree roughly reflects the drop in the number of opponents.
But it was not until Ataturk rescued Turkey from dismemberment at the hands of the western Allies after the first world war that the army was put on a pedestal.
In 1919, the end of World War I was marked by the signing of the Treaty of Versailles between Germany and the allies.
When China and North Korea formed their alliance, the countries were both poor, weak, resentful, isolated, and the target of cold-war containment by the United States and its allies.
Rubin argues that Obama policy has moved beyond appeasing terrorists into the territory of enabling the militaries of states to wage global war against the U.S. and it's allies.
Mr Berlusconi has been one of George W Bush's staunchest allies since the start of the war against Saddam Hussein in 2003.
He could be forced to resort to promising fewer foreign-policy mistakes, like the Iraq war and the alienation of America's allies that accompanied it.
"Some of these opponents of the war are now turning their harshest criticism on our allies in Iraq instead of our enemies, " Lieberman said in a statement.
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Italy has not been included on the US administration's list of allies which may help in the war and it was notified late of the attacks on Afghanistan.
The panelists responded by reinforcing the seriousness that the War on Terror and the threat of Sharia are to America and our allies abroad.
The richly detailed drama, which opened Monday night at Lincoln Center, is set in the spring of 1948, when the Cold War between former World War II allies America and the Soviet Union is under way.
Regularly beating the drums of war, Netanyahu has succeeded in getting alarmed Western allies to turn the sanction screws, but has yet to persuade them of the need for military action, or even to win their backing for a lone Israeli initiative.
Turkey did allow the use of an airbase to supply the war, but escaped the opprobrium heaped on America's Arab allies who grudgingly lent support to the toppling of Saddam Hussein.
This, he said, meant that the war launched by the United States and its allies in the wake of September 11 was unfair on the people of Afghanistan, whose only sin, he said, was to be Muslim.
So are the two top allies in the "war on terror" in danger of coming to blows with each other?
In 1915, Italy secretly signed the Pact of London with Britain, France and Russia which would put them on the side of the allies in World War I.
Had the allies of World War II been prepared with a sufficient number of so pedestrian a thing as landing craft, the war might have been cheated of a year and a half and many millions of lives.
But no speech has made such an expansive examination of the war against al Qaeda and its allies in all its manifestations, from drone strikes to detention policies to a clear-eyed assessment of the scope of the threats posed by al Qaeda and its affiliates, as well as by those "homegrown" extremists who attacked the Boston Marathon in April.
In 1945, the World War II Allies replied to a Japanese communiqu , saying the authority of the Emperor and the Japanese government to rule Japan would be subject to the Allied Supreme Commander.
Under then-US commander Gen Stanley McChrystal, the focus switched from leading an all-out war against the Taliban and its allies to "winning the hearts and minds" of Afghan civilians.
The British contingent in Afghanistan is among the most active NATO units in the nearly seven-year-old war with the Taliban, the Islamic movement that ruled most of Afghanistan before its al Qaeda allies attacked New York and Washington in 2001.
That makes the war cheaper for America while allies do the dirtier work the opposite of the dismal pattern in Afghanistan.
Aznar is one of U.S. President George W. Bush's closest allies on the war, a stance Aznar justifies as part of the global fight against terrorism.
He spent the rest of the war as a prisoner in his castle at Laken until he was freed by the Allies in 1945.
On top of all this, a trade round launched at Doha offers not just a symbolic stand against terrorism, but a way to help many of the new allies in the war.
The question now is whether the political problems facing the American-led coalition ranging from impatience in America to war-weariness among allies, including sections of the British public, and disunity among the Afghans will pile up so fast as to cancel out any progress that the military campaign might be making.
In the second world war it was the first German city to fall to the Allies and much of it was reduced to rubble (although the damaged cathedral survived).
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