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Attendees at an Arab League conference on Syria on Monday, July 2, 2012, in Cairo include (from left) Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu; Khalid Al Attiya, Qatar minister of state for international cooperation; Iraqi Foreign Affairs Minister Hoshyar Zebari; Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby; Sheik Sabah Khalid Al Hamad Al Sabah, the Kuwaiti foreign minister; Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr; and Palestinian envoy Nasser Al Qudwa. (AP Photo)

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a televised address Tuesday, stressed that his nation would not accept any encroachments or attacks by Syrian forces. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) shakes hands May 22, 2012, with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at his house in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Associated Press)

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Illustration Cyprus under Turkey by John Camejo for The Washington Times

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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrive for a meeting in Istanbul Thursday, June 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

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Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz (left) joins Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu (second from right) on a drilling platform Thursday to mark the start of exploratory oil and gas drilling by Turkey in the northern half of ethnically split Cyprus. (Associated Press)

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Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili speaks April 14, 2012, to the media after daylong talks with six world powers in Istanbul, Turkey.

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U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, third from left, is welcomed by Syrian refugee children upon his arrival at Yayladagi refugee camp in Hatay province, Turkey, Tuesday, April 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Umit Bektas, Pool)

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**FILE** Representatives sit around a table Jan. 22, 2011, on the second day talks between Iran and world powers on Iran's nuclear program at the historical Ciragan Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. (Associated Press)

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) speaks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Istanbul on Sunday, April 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Yasin Bulbul, Turkish Prime Minister's Press Service)

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In this picture released by an official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, meets with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the northwestern city of Mashhad, Iran, Thursday, March 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)