Recently its prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has also engaged robustly in Middle Eastern diplomacy, mediating between Syria and Israel, talkingto Iran and keeping a beady eye on the aspirations for self-rule of the Kurds of northern Iraq.
"Anti-depressants do play a part but we tend to use a raft of different measures including talking groups and more recently self-help books, " Dr MacMoreland added.
"Through diplomatic steps, we need to give careful and thorough explanation that we are talking about attacks strictly for the purpose of self defense, " he said.