"Talking Turkey
by Marisa Morrison
06.19.2007
Yesterday at the Nixon Center, former assistant secretary of defense Richard Perle compared the Turkish electoral system to the sausage maker in his kitchen: The results of both mechanisms are anything but consistent. In Turkey, the strange mixture of flawed election laws and military involvement in politics ensures unpredictable political outcomes; the unstable political situation there has raised questions about the Turkish military’s central place in politics. The military’s political prominence and the specter of large-scale Turkish emigration present significant challenges to the European Union, which opened membership negotiations with Turkey in 2004."
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