Turkey Uses Open Door Policy To Engage Iran

by Peter Kenyon, NPR

American ally Turkey has good relations with Iran. Earlier this month Turkey offered to take possession of about half of Iran's lightly enriched uranium so it could not be converted to nuclear weapons. This irked the U.S. which saw it as a ploy to forestall tighter sanctions against Iran. More than a million Iranians travel to Turkey each year, and Turkey welcomes the visitors.

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• Morning Edition, May 27, 2010