"As Turkey's Foreign Policy Changes, So Does Turkey
By Soner Cagaptay
Hurriyet Daily News, January 20, 2011
Since the founding of the republic, Turkish political institutions and mores have derived much of their internal strength from a specific external orientation. In other words, the institutionalization of the vision of a modernist, secular and liberal democratic Turkey necessitated -- especially at the time of the founding -- a modernist, secular and liberal democratic role model: Europe."
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