Despite Cartoon Flap, Danish PM to Head NATO

Turkey shoots down Danish candidate

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 4, 2009 10:08 AM CDT

(Newser) – NATO named Anders Fogh Rasmussen as its new secretary-general today, overcoming a contentious stalemate with Turkey, the AP reports. Turkey had strongly opposed the Danish prime minister because he’d supported the newspapers that printed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005. Turkey argued that... Read full story »

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