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Turkey's Leader And Supporters Give Trump¹ Benefit Of The Doubt — For Now

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The election of Mr. Trump has focused attention on his business interests around the world - how they might affect his foreign policy. One of those places is Turkey, an important NATO ally that neighbors Syria, Iraq and Iran. NPR's Peter Kenyon went to see the most prominent reminder³ of the president-elect in Turkey, Trump Towers Istanbul.

PETER KENYON, BYLINE⁴: They rise above the Bosphorus waterway on the city's European side - twin glass-and-steel edifices⁵ bearing the familiar Trump Towers brand. In this case, it's Trump in name only. The Turkish owners paid for the right to put Trump's name on the buildings, which contain offices above and a shopping mall below. It's a familiar mix of international brands that might be found in any number of developed and developing countries.

Outside the Burger King stand in the food court, a table of students fresh from their English-language studies attack piles of french fries and consider America and its incoming president. Twenty-three-year-old Fatih Balci says he's learning English because he wants to travel.

FATIH BALCI: Yeah, I would like to go to the United States.

KENYON: He reverts⁶ to Turkish to explain why he's looking forward to a Trump administration.

BALCI: (Through interpreter) I believe it might be a new beginning for Turkey-American relationships. Probably, they're going to send back Fethullah Gulen. But I don't believe that the Middle East policies will change.

KENYON: Sending back Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based cleric who denies Turkey's charge that he was behind a failed coup⁷ this summer, tops Turkey's wish list. Turks are hopeful that a key advisor⁸, retired⁹ Lieutenant¹⁰ General Mike Flynn, will back Turkey's views in his new role as Trump's national security adviser¹¹. Just before the election, Flynn wrote an op-ed piece calling for Gulen's extradition¹².

Questions have been raised about whether Flynn's consulting firm was hired to lobby Washington on Turkey's behalf. But what about Trump's controversial campaign pledge to halt Muslim immigration? Balci isn't worried. He calls it political rhetoric¹³ calculated to appeal to the Islamophobia among some Westerners.

In fact, late last year, it seemed Trump's comments on Muslims might trigger a Turkish backlash. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he'd been wrong to attend the opening of the towers in 2012 and angrily called for the Trump name to be taken down.

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PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN: (Speaking Turkish).

KENYON: Erdogan said Islamophobia was spreading to the U.S. And without naming Trump, he said there were candidates with no tolerance¹⁴ for Muslims in America. He said the Trump brand has no place on a Turkish building and should be removed from the Istanbul towers. For whatever reason, the name was not removed.

And now Turkey's leaders are sounding positive about Trump's win. Author and columnist¹⁵ Mustafa Akyol says they suddenly seemed to forget the anti-Muslim rhetoric and began focusing on another aspect of Donald Trump, his stated reluctance¹⁶ to pressure other leaders about things like their human-rights record.

MUSTAFA AKYOL: So it's a kind of live-and-let-live world. Nobody should, you know, criticize us. We do what we do in Turkey. I see the sympathy in Turkey for Donald Trump as naivete. A country like Turkey should have reservations about a presidency¹⁷ by Donald Trump, which might create big problems for Muslims in the United States.

KENYON: Akyol says Trump could also cause Turkey problems next door in Syria if he follows through on his desire to cooperate with Russia and the Syrian regime on fighting Islamic State, as opposed to pressing for President Bashar al-Assad to step down, as Turkey has advocated. But for now, young Turks will continue to hang at the Trump-Towers mall and talk about their plans for coming to America. Peter Kenyon, NPR News, Istanbul.

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

3 reminder   

n.提醒物，纪念品；暗示，提示

参考例句：

• I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
• It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知，她才付应该交的房租。

4 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

5 edifices   

n.大建筑物( edifice的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They complain that the monstrous edifices interfere with television reception. 他们抱怨说，那些怪物般的庞大建筑，干扰了电视接收。 来自辞典例句
• Wealthy officials and landlords built these queer edifices a thousand years ago. 有钱的官吏和地主在一千年前就修建了这种奇怪的建筑物。 来自辞典例句

6 reverts   

恢复( revert的第三人称单数 )； 重提； 回到…上； 归还

参考例句：

• The mind reverts to the earliest days of colonial history. 我们回想到早期的殖民地历史。
• Macau reverts to Chinese sovereignty at midnight on December19. 澳门主权于十二月十九日零时回归中国。

7 coup   

n.政变；突然而成功的行动

参考例句：

• The monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
• That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。

8 advisor   

n.顾问，指导老师，劝告者

参考例句：

• They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
• The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。

9 retired   

adj.隐退的，退休的，退役的

参考例句：

• The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
• Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。

10 lieutenant   

n.陆军中尉，海军上尉；代理官员，副职官员

参考例句：

• He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army.他被提升为陆军中尉。
• He prevailed on the lieutenant to send in a short note.他说动那个副官，递上了一张简短的便条进去。

11 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。

12 extradition   

n.引渡（逃犯）

参考例句：

• The smuggler is in prison tonight,awaiting extradition to Britain.这名走私犯今晚在监狱，等待引渡到英国。
• He began to trouble concerning the extradition laws.他开始费尽心思地去想关于引渡法的问题。

13 rhetoric   

n.修辞学，浮夸之言语

参考例句：

• Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
• Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。

14 tolerance   

n.宽容；容忍，忍受；耐药力；公差

参考例句：

• Tolerance is one of his strengths.宽容是他的一个优点。
• Human beings have limited tolerance of noise.人类对噪音的忍耐力有限。

15 columnist   

n.专栏作家

参考例句：

• The host was interviewing a local columnist.节目主持人正在同一位当地的专栏作家交谈。
• She's a columnist for USA Today.她是《今日美国报》的专栏作家。

16 reluctance   

n.厌恶，讨厌，勉强，不情愿

参考例句：

• The police released Andrew with reluctance.警方勉强把安德鲁放走了。
• He showed the greatest reluctance to make a reply.他表示很不愿意答复。

17 presidency   

n.总统(校长，总经理)的职位(任期)

参考例句：

• Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。