"“Neo-Ottoman” Turkey?
Dec 3rd, 2009
by Suat Kiniklioglu
- Suat Kiniklioglu is AK Party Deputy Chairman for External Affairs, a member of the AK Party Central Executive Committee, and member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Turkish Parliament.
ANKARA – Nowadays, the international media are obsessed with the question of who “lost” Turkey and what that supposed loss means for Europe and the West. More alarmingly, some commentators liken Turkey’s neighborhood policy to a revival of Ottoman imperialism. Recently, a senior Turkish columnist went so far as to quote Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu as saying that “we are indeed neo-Ottoman.”"
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