*The saying that politics makes for strange bedfellows has never been truer when it comes to Turkey's prime minister and his latest inroads in the Arab world. * It is indeed rather ironic, but who would have ever imagined that a Turkish leader would be seen as a hero in the lands once ruled by the Ottoman Turks for more 
than 600 years. And memories in this region linger long. But this is what happened to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who, since the recent war between Israel and Hamas, has emerged as the only Middle Eastern leader to stand up and vociferously state his opinion regarding Israel and regarding Hamas.
*HERE* <http://1426.blogspot.com/2009/02/hero-in-middle-east-conflicts.html>
