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Longtime foreign correspondent Frank Viviano offers CBS5.com's readers in the Bay Area and beyond his unique perspective on world affairs.

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Good News From The Middle East?


President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan listen to an unidentified cleric as they tour on April 7, 2009 the Sultanahmet Mosque.
Source: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

While the Obama Administration struggles with military setbacks in Afghanistan, and Congress with a divisive health care debate, there is unprecedented good news from a part of the world that is usually synonymous with crisis. For the first time in three decades covering the Middle East, I returned from a recent assignment there with optimism about the future. The reason, in a word, is Turkey.

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