"Sliding Backward
An ugly nationalist mood is brewing in Ankara, stalling once hailed reforms.
By Owen Matthews
Newsweek International
April 24, 2006 issue - Whatever happened to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the outspoken prime minister whose bold reforms brought Turkey to the very threshold of Europe? He was a rebel who loosened the Turkish military's stranglehold on political power. He brought cultural rights to the country's Kurdish minority and overhauled a quasi-totalitarian legal system. But these days? He sounds more and more like the reactionary old guard he came to power vowing to overturn."
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