Ray Haynes, would create a task force to review potential foreign investment by California's state employee and teacher pension funds and alert the funds of national security and human rights concerns.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Similarly, France was delighted in mid-May when a personal intervention by Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, secured the release of Clotilde Reiss, a French teacher being held in Iran on spying charges.

ECONOMIST: Sometimes Turkey really is a bridge between west and east