Before visiting Iraq and Turkey, the president was in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.

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This tiny enclave of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus is not recognized by the United Nations and reluctantly recognized by Turkey.

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In 1993,Spiegler earned the gratitude of the Republic of Turkey for recovering 6th century gold and silver treasures which had been stolen by tomb raiders and eventually sold to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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They fought, and many died, for an independent Kurdistan, a place that just happens to sit on territory currently in the possession of the Republic of Turkey.

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Such behaviour has cost Turkey some support among Jewish Americans formerly ardent supporters of Turkey as a moderate Muslim republic that is friendly to Israel.

ECONOMIST: Strained relations between Turkey and America

Azeris have a history of tensions with the central government over their close cultural ties to Turkey and the Republic of Azerbaijan and occasional separatist movements.

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