"Turkey: Less Democracy But An Alternative
Guest-Crosspost | By Barry Rubin | Source: The Rubin Report | Published: March 27, 2011
For several years I’ve been telling you that under its current Islamist regime, Turkey has become less and less of a democratic state. Dissidents are arrested on trumped-up charges; the media is bought up or intimidated into shutting up. Hundreds of peaceful dissidents–including many journalists–have been arrested, imprisoned, and accused of treason or terrorism without evidence. The regime has moved into an alliance with Iran, Syria, Hamas, and Hizballah. It has bought up much of the media and intimidated much of the rest."
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