Turkish Daily News - The Bush administration should be a little self critical: "If both the Erdogan government and the Bush administration ignore what is happening, there will be serious repercussions.
If developments are left to their own, both Turkey and the United States will lose.
We know the damage Washington may do to Turkey will be more than vice versa, but Turkey's influence should not be dismissed.
What is best for all of us is to ignore the contest of how much damage we may cause to each other and try to find a way to mend the relations.
Let's just cool down.
Let the Bush administration and the Erdogan government stop talking through their ambassadors and try to understand each other.
Let Erdogan go to the White House and explain what he is trying to do and ask Bush, �What are your plans?�
Damaging relations is not very hard. What's hard is to keep the relations strong and pay the necessary attention.
Unfortunately, neither Erdogan nor Bush is capable of paying the necessary attention right now."
In D.C., the undertone of anti-Turkish sentiment is growing as reflected in a recent string of nasty articles, includinng on in the Wall St. Journal a few weeks ago and not this one in the Neo-con flagship, the Weekly Standard.
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