"Worldview: Turkey's crackdown on the press smacks of authoritarianism
By Trudy Rubin
Inquirer Opinion Columnist
During my recent trip to Egypt, many young activists told me Turkey's democracy might be a model for them to follow.
In their minds, Turkey, with its mostly Sunni Muslim population, has managed to meld its Muslim heritage with a state based on rule of law and a secular constitution. However, the Turkish government has recently been showing disturbing signs of the kind of authoritarianism the Egyptians spurned."
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