"Can Turkey Make the Transition to an EU Democracy?
Despite Turkey professing to be a democracy, the government has been dominated by the military for many years. They've seen to it that a candidate for office can't be openly religious in order to run for office. Like virtually every Muslim country, Turkey has a restive fundamentalist Muslim population. If it's not a majority, it's at least a large minority, perhaps a voting block that could not be denied if the military hadn't intervene with multiple coop de tats in the past."
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