WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan received on Wednesday the leaders of Muslim institutions in the United States.
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Eric Edelman also attended the meeting.
American Muslim leaders said that Turkey could be a role model for Islam world.
Muslim leaders noted the importance of increasing the dialogue and expressed their uneasiness that Islam and terrorism were equated with each other. They stressed that Turkey could have serious contributions to remove this approach.
(GC-AÖ) 28.01.2004