NATO Summit
Apr 5 2009, Marco Villa

The effort by Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to be sworn in as NATO’s new president this week were almost derailed by Turkey.

Although strongly supported by the United States, France and Germany; the Turkish government has opposed his...

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