"Why Not Turkey?
By Marc Schulman
On October 12, as pessimism regarding the American project to export democracy to Iraq was widening and deepening, Turkish author Orhan Pamuk was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. These seemingly unrelated events sparked my interest in why it has not been the policy of the United States to promote Muslim Turkey as a democratic model for the Middle East. In Iraq, the task has been to create democracy. In Turkey, the challenge is far easier: to improve an existing democracy."
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