"Turkey on the eve of the referendum
Will the September 12 referendum be another tumultuous chapter in the modern political history of Turkey?
In the last decade, due to the well-known democratisation endeavour of the Middle East under the leadership of the United States, Turkey has been the subject of analysis by many Western scholars and journalists. As the only democratic and secular Muslim country, it has been presented as a model for other Middle Eastern regimes. Most of these analyses neglect the unique characteristics of Turkey and fail to take into account the complex problems experienced by Turkish politics in the last sixty years. "
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