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      "id": 102493,
      "date": "1999-05-27",
      "retrieved": "2016-05-24T20:44:59.391941",
      "title": "Kosovo: Greek and Turkish Perspectives",
      "summary": "Western governments have cited a danger of the Kosovo conflict spreading to NATO allies\nGreece\nand Turkey as justification for military intervention in Kosovo. These two eastern Mediterranean\nneighbors have difficult bilateral relations. Their overarching goals for Kosovo are similar, but their\nviews of NATO's military campaign differ. Greece opposes NATO's approach for reasons based\non\nhistory, culture, competing foreign policy goals, and public opinion. Its sympathies lie with the\nSerbs. Turkey supports NATO out of alliance loyalty and because of its shared history, culture, and\nattendant sympathies with the Kosovar Albanians. Turkey is participating in the military operation;\nGreece is not. Greece and Turkey both reject the notion that a war between them might arise from\nthe current conflict. Greece is concerned about the refugee crisis destabilizing the region. It also is\nconcerned about the implications that its position on Kosovo might have on relations with the United\nStates and Europe, while Turkey does not accept that the crisis might have implications for its\nsoutheast and Kurds. See CRS Issue Brief IB98041,  Kosovo and U.S. Policy , and CRS Issue Brief IB10027  Kosovo: U.S. and Allied Military Operations . This report will be updated if\ndevelopments\nwarrant.",
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  "topics": [
    "Foreign Affairs",
    "Middle Eastern Affairs"
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