Paul Krugman makes clear what is the moral of the Turkish situation: it is the most clear cut example yet of Bush's lack of credibility on the world stage since even our closest allies consider his word to be worthless. Krugman points to another example:

Consider the astonishing fact that Vicente Fox, president of Mexico, appears unwilling to cast his U.N. Security Council vote in America's favor. Given Mexico's close economic ties to the United States, and Mr. Fox's onetime personal relationship with Mr. Bush, Mexico should have been more or less automatically in America's column. But the Mexican president feels betrayed. He took the politically risky step of aligning himself closely with Mr. Bush — a boost to Republican efforts to woo Hispanic voters — in return for promised reforms that would legalize the status of undocumented immigrants. The administration never acted on those reforms, and Mr. Fox is in no mood to do Mr. Bush any more favors.

I've noticed this as well. I've also noticed the lack of comment on this in the national press. Prior to Bush becoming President there was no world leader closer to him then Fox. Bush used his relationship with Fox to demonstrate that he wasn't entirely clueless about world affairs (the fact that Mexico shares a big border with Texas had something to do with this of course). Yet even his good buddy Fox (and his soul brother Putin) have turned against him. The only world leader of any name that is still with Bush is Tony Blair, and that increasingly appears to be simply because Blair has gone so far over the cliff with Dubya that he realizes his only hope for survival is to stick it out and hope for the best. We can but hope that there is enough muscle and enough will in the rest of the world to stop this madman.