ANKARA, Turkey President Obama will visit Turkey in April, two senior administration officials told CNN on Saturday.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in Ankara on a diplomatic tour, had said earlier in the day that Obama would visit Turkey soon. Clinton was meeting with Turkish officials "to emphasize the work the United States and Turkey must do together on behalf of peace, prosperity and progress," she said. Obama had said he was going to deliver a speech in a Muslim capital within the first hundred days of his presidency. The visit to Turkey will be his first to a Muslim country since he was inaugurated. A senior Obama administration official said the visit would be "an important opportunity to visit a NATO ally and discuss shared challenges."
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