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Increasing economic integration between Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan has prompted visions of a new Middle East Union to rival the EU, but Turkish officials have taken pains to downplay the idea.
It would be more accurate to call it a regional-cooperation model rather than a union, diplomatic sources told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review on Friday. In describing what he has in mind, however, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu seems to be talking about something more than mere regional cooperation.
