"US should try the EU approach
By Marwan Al Kabalan, Special to Gulf News
......Engagement, incentive-driven policy and temptation have always been Europe's foreign policy tools which, despite being loathed by the neocons in Washington as unacceptable appeasement, paid back handsomely in most cases. In Turkey, for example, the EU did succeed in bringing about a major shift in Turkish domestic and foreign policy by wooing the Turkish government, through promises to be admitted to the EU, to undertake major reforms. Despite sporadic ill-treatment cases, for example, torture is no longer systematic in Turkish prisons, the military has, so far, respected the popular will, which put moderate Islamists in power, anti-corruption measures have been genuine and effective and minorities - the Kurds in particular - enjoy more rights today than ever before."
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