"Danger Signs Turkey, a friend and ally, is becoming perilously estranged from the West
For decades Turkey has been a generally reliable partner in an unstable region where the West has pressing need of friends. In all questions of grand strategy, Turkey’s interests and those of Europe and America coincide, not least in securing a more stable Middle East where Islamist extremism has no purchase. Turkey’s successful recent pursuit of free-market reforms, richly rewarded by inflows of foreign investment, should have cemented the relationship and advanced its longstanding ambitions to join the EU. The strengthening of civil democracy in Turkey, and the nurturing of pro-Western sympathies within the country, were expected by Europeans and Americans to go hand in hand."
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