You see that I'm beginning to really lose control here and also hope.

But instead a relationship that can promote respect and hope and this optimism that together we can move forward.

Education is the key to giving strained populations hope for a better future. And hope is fundamental to negating the allure of extremism, in all of its forms.

What characterizes Turks today is not so much pride and hope in their country s expanding influence as fear of its disintegration. The Kurdish problem preoccupies Turks, as does their growing sense that they are losing control of two essential issues the Syrian and Iranian crises.