"An Open Letter to Mr. Michael Rubin
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Sunday , 12 November 2006
By Barin KAYAOGLU
On October 19, American Enterprise Institute scholar and respected Middle East expert Michael Rubin published an article on the Wall Street Journal. In “Mr. Erdoğan’s Turkey,” Rubin argued that the future of Turkey as a secular and Western-oriented state was at risk. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan, according to Rubin, was using “the rhetoric of democracy to advance distinctly undemocratic agendas” while American diplomats were interfering to dismiss these concerns and downplay the Islamist threat.[1]"
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