"Turks then, now and tomorrow
TODAY'S COLUMNIST
By Tulin Daloglu
March 20, 2007
ANKARA, Turkey. -- Four years ago, President Bush portrayed the war in Iraq as the latest front in the "global democratic revolution" led by the United States. Today, hardly anyone remains hopeful that Iraq will turn into a pro-Western democracy like Japan or Germany. The idea that "freedom leads to peace" has proven too simplistic in envisioning such a gigantic change for the Middle East. And little attention has been paid to how Iraq's experience has impacted Turkey, the only democratic neighboring country with a Muslim population. "
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