When US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that President Barack Obama would visit Turkey, most Turkish political observers were caught by surprise.
However, conventional wisdom suggests that the possibility of Obama's visit to Turkey was in fact always there. In one of Emre Uslu's earlier analyses about the Obama administration's approach to Turkey, which appeared in The Jamestown Foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor, the following facts were underlined:
"With Barack Obama, almost everyone, from the prime minister down to the man in the street, is ready to open a new chapter in Turkish-US relations. They do, however, have some concerns as well. They want to know how he will handle the Armenian claims of genocide and whether he will continue to support Turkish efforts to curb Kurdish separatist terror activities.
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12 March 2009
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