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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Beware the 'Turkish Model'

"Beware the 'Turkish Model'
Religious orthodoxy is an ideological beauty contest, in which the winner is always the ugly guy.

By SONER CAGAPTAY

The so-called 'Turkish model,' in which an Islamist party heads an ostensible democracy, has been posited in recent weeks as a likely outcome in post-authoritarian Arab countries. Likely, maybe; but Turkey's experience under the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, suggests that such a path may also be a slippery slope."

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