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Turkey's friends agree that as a seasoned diplomat with determinedly pro-Western views, Mr Gul would make a fine head of state.

Shove it Scarlet. No one wants to hear your pro western ideology and subjectivity. If you were starving, you would eat anything.

Last winter Gazprom appeared to blackmail Ukraine's new pro-Western government by cutting off the country's gas amid a dispute over prices.

He carved out a niche as a pro-Western liberal, in contrast to his hard-line father and siblings.

Radical Iraq, he thought, would be used as a battering ram against all moderate pro-Western regimes in the area.

With King Pahlavi's pro-western policy, its nuclear program was backed up by the U. S and its western allies.

The outrage led to a new election and the formation of a shaky pro-Western coalition government.

He said his party would respect women's rights and Tunisia's pro-Western values.

A dictator might be pro-Western or play off Russia against the West, says Sultan Akimbekov, a Kazakh political scientist.

The balance of power looks likely to shift slightly against the pro-Western alliance in favour of the Shia party-cum-militia, Hizbullah.

Thus were dismissed out of hand the reasonable concerns of the most pro-western foreign minister that Russia has ever had.

Understandably, such evidence of a powerful mood-swing on the Arab "street" dismays and alarms pro-Western Arab leaders.

Policy of the Western Han Dynasty and the pro-Western Han Dynasty in Chinese history was in the North, "Hun" to take a foreign policy.

Now it's all the pro-Western Arab regimes which are obsolete in the light of events in Tunisia.

The heroine of the 2004 pro-Western Orange revolution, Ms Tymoshenko has long predicted that she will be found guilty.

It makes Iran from the pro-Western camp turned to anti-Western camp and made the Iran and the radical Arabian countries' joint in possible.

Pro-Western Arab governments, particularly those of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which denies Al Jazeera a bureau, repeatedly accuse it of bias.

The decisive electoral victory for the ruling pro-Western coalition in Lebanon on Sunday has taken almost everyone by surprise.

And there have always been anti-western regimes, such as Iran and Syria, existing alongside the pro-western governments in the Middle East.

The hopes of the early 1990s that Russia would evolve into an instinctively pro-western partner have evaporated.

If the Qaddafi clan is replaced by a pro-Western government, Moscow might lose these sales indefinitely.

But Turkey's pro-Western stance led it to neglect its neighbourhood, including many countries once in the Ottoman empire.

Despite the troubles, the conservative party of the pro-Western Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is expected to win the ballot.

That prospect is essential to keeping a wavering Turkey on its pro-western path, too (see article).

George Bush said this week that Syria wanted to overthrow the pro-Western, anti-Syrian coalition government in Lebanon.

How the Kremlin may react to Ukraine's pro-Georgian and pro-Western position.

But the changes emerging from the so-called Arab Spring go beyond a clash between pro-Western movements and Islamist groups.

That prospect is essential to keeping a wavering Turkey on its pro-western path, too.

But almost everyone turned a blind eye as long as the regime was "pro-western" .

The pro-Western Government was backed by Egypt and Saudi Arabia, its opponents by Syria and Iran.

The EU's sympathy lay largely with Ukraine following the 2004 "Orange Revolution" which brought pro-Western leaders to power.

They range from secular to religious, anti-Western to more or less pro-Western.

In Bahrain and other areas where there are pro-Western regimes, they turn a blind eye to the very same or even worse conditions.

In fact, she is more of a political opponent because [of her] pro-Western orientation.

It is a small pro-Western nation at Europe's fringe that is struggling to recover from a vicious bashing by its giant neighbour.

The pro-Western Government's win gives hope for peace, stability and democracy