1.   Is China perfect for a Western orientation?

2.   That, Lukin said, will require a Western orientation, though not necessarily close relations with the Americans.

3.   Despite its longtime membership in NATO, Turkey has for years vacillated between its Eastern soul and its explicitly Western political orientation.

4.   Such rumblings from the military are taken seriously in Turkey, where the generals view themselves as guardians of the Western orientation.

5.   While the United States tries to redraw the map of Europe with a Western orientation, Russia struggles to convince the world and itself that it remains a superpower.

6.   The meeting was called for by Turkey, a predominantly Muslim state with a decades-long western orientation.