"Turkey Lost Turkey
The Islamist AKP used the EU accession process to gain Western legitimacy but never really had a vision to join.
BY SONER CAGAPTAY
U.S. President Barack Obama last week partly blamed the European Union for supposedly driving Turkey away from the West by stalling the country's EU accession. Mr. Obama is confusing cause and effect. The real problem is that the ruling Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) doesn't share the dream of a liberal, Western Turkey."
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