NPR's Ted Clark reports on the completion of new -- and Islamist -- Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan's first official trip abroad. It's an odyssey that pointedly took him east to visit with his Muslim neighbors instead of west to visit with his traditional NATO allies. So far, Washington has been reserved about the visit that saw Erbakan hop from Tehran to Islamabad to Jakarta... but privately, there are serious concerns about Turkey's sudden decision to make peace -- and do business -- with such nations as Iraq and Iran in defiance of US efforts to isolate them.
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