"Turkey’s political storm
BY ERIC MARGOLIS
6 May 2007
TURKEY is routinely held up by Western politicians and media as a role model for other Muslim nations. ‘Why can’t the Muslim World be more likely Turkey,’ goes the refrain in Washington.
Recent dramatic political events there remind us that behind its veneer of parliamentary democracy lie unelected power structures that have directed this nation’s affairs since the 1920’s."
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