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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Turkey: NATO’s ‘Open Prison’ - Alex Alexiev - National Review Online

Turkey: NATO’s ‘Open Prison’
The West needs to confront Turkey, its former ally.

By Alex Alexiev

With Egypt’s Islamists scoring a crushing electoral victory over their secular opponents, governments and pundits alike are considering the likely denouement of the vaunted Arab Spring in the region’s largest country, Turkey. It is therefore worth noting some very troubling recent developments in the country that the Muslim Brotherhood and many in the West consistently tout as a successful “Islamist democracy” worth emulating.

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