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Suspicious minds in a secular land
March 12, 2005
AT Istanbul's gleaming, futuristic international airport, the most heavily stocked novel in the large bookshop is called Metal Firtina (The Metal Storm). Its plot centres on a military invasion of Turkey by the US.
Given that Turkey is a member of NATO and therefore a military ally of the US, this is perplexing, to say the least.
Yet the book has sold more than 150,000 copies. The wave of paranoia sweeping Turkey about the US -- polls show greater opposition to US policy in the Middle East in Turkey than in any other nation - is producing many weird results. "
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