Parris: Just because he's not Bush, the next US president will be more popular among Turks

President George W. Bush is leaving Turkish-US relations worse than he found them, according to former US Ambassador to Turkey Mark Paris, now a counselor to the Brookings Institution's Turkey Project. In his article "Common Values and Common Interests? The Bush Legacy in US-Turkish Relations," Paris wrote, "The burden of responsibility for what has been the most problematic six years in US-Turkish relations since the Cyprus crisis of the 1970s lies with Washington." He added that the next president will get a bounce in Turkish public opinion just by not being Bush.