"How should we read Rice's Ankara visit?
Cengiz Candar
ccandar@superonline.com
26 April 2006
Condoleezza Rice's visit to Ankara aroused excitement in the Turkish public. What is behind it? What will she ask for in Ankara? What's cooking?
These are not natural questions to be asked in a transparent system. If such questions are asked as they have been asked in Turkey, then, despite Turkey being relatively the most -- if not the only -- democratic Muslim country in the region, it still lacks a sufficient degree of transparency. Or, that means there is not much public confidence in its authorities, since a visit of a very high official of an allied country could easily resonate as if something is cooking invisibly, behind the curtains."
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