Mr Erdogan says Mr Assad has resumed the support for the PKK that ended when Turkey threatened to go to war against his father in 1998.
Should Turkey go to war with Syria, it can entitled to call for support from fellow NATO, including the United States.
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The EU still thinks Turkey has further to go before formal accession negotiations can start, but even those member states least friendly to the Turks have been making conciliatory noises: on October 10th, the foreign minister of Greece, Turkey's traditional adversary, said he saw no reason why the EU should not set a date for accession talks with Turkey at its December summit in Copenhagen.
But if America decides to go ahead without one Turkey may still, reluctantly, agree to support it, given how much it has to gain from a short, successful war and how much it stands to lose if it backs out and incurs America's wrath.
Some politicians -- and a few economists -- would say that America is drunk on credit and just needs to go cold turkey.
Then we go home to turkey salad sandwiches and spiked eggnog.
Nevertheless, some people need to listen to Ramsey and go cold turkey, he said.
On Israel, the Jerusalem Post is apparently reporting he's also going to go to the West Bank, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
And Turkey, which has yet to receive the go-ahead even to begin negotiations, was dismayed that the commission linked its membership to a settlement of the Cyprus dispute.
The cooperation of neighboring Turkey has been critical for the export deal to go through.
Russell told me that Wild Turkey is still two years away from having enough rye to go around.
As fence-mending exercises go, Mr Powell's trip to Turkey went well.
Born into a rich Ottoman family in 1940, Mr Cem is proud of roots that go back to Salonika, now in Greece, where modern Turkey's founder, Kemal Ataturk, was born.
First, the number of Syrians crossing the country's various borders has sharply increased as people flee on foot into Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, and many of the 1m-odd refugees from Iraq ponder whether to go home.
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