"Opinion: How Washington misreads Turkey
Those who fear Turkey's 'Islamism' miss its dynamism.
LONDON, United Kingdom — I'm going to type a word.
Islamist.
What images come to mind?
Now I'm going to type a phrase.
Most dynamic city in the world.
What does it make you think of?
Can you reconcile the two?
Think Islamist, and you probably imagine some un-democratic place with a stagnant, corrupt economy and women encased from head to toe in black cloth. It is joyless and puritanical in the pejorative sense, with innate hostility to America and the West."
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