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Yigal Schleifer is a
Washington-based journalist and analyst covering Turkey. He is also the author
of "The Turko-File,"
a blog about Turkish foreign and domestic affairs on Eurasianet.org. He was
based in Istanbul between 2002 and 2010, where he worked as a correspondent for
the Christian
Science Monitor and the English-language
service of the German Press Agency (DPA).
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