But Truman had been urged to turn the request into a general call to arms against Communist expansion anywhere in the world by advisers like Acheson, who warned that if Greece and Turkey fell they would be like rotten apples in a barrel: the whole Mediterranean region could be affected.

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Green lawmaker Daniel Cohn-Bendit said a sustainable economic recovery for the east Mediterranean island nation can only be achieved through closer ties with the region's biggest and most dynamic economy, Turkey.

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