"The new ’moderate’ Turkey
By Robert Ellis, August 15 2008
Under AKP rule Turkey has become a Big Brother state where critical journalists risk arrest.
Since the AKP (Justice and Development Party) came to power in 2002, and especially in the last year, Turkey’s development has taken an Orwellian turn.
For the first three years things went well and the AKP government continued with the reform program embarked on by the previous coalition government. But since Turkey started accession negotiations with the European Union in October 2005, the zeal for reform has lost momentum."
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