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The future President of Turkey pulled off his T-shirt, hiked up his swimming trunks, and waded into the lake, progressing relentlessly if flinchingly to shorts-soaking depths. This was Gokberk Kutku's first overseas assignment, to a four-week retreat in a town called Pirkkala, in southeastern Finland, where he, along with some fifty representatives from eleven other nations, had come to exchange ideas about how to resolve persistent global ills: the conflict in the Middle East; the threat of terrorism; poverty in the developing world. Kutku, who prefers to go by the nickname Speedy, had a clear agenda for what he wished to achieve in his forthcoming premiership. "I want to ...