"Turkish Model for Egypt
By Soner Cagaptay
Hurriyet Daily News, February 4, 2011
Egypt's transition toward a post-Hosni Mubarak era, as incremental and painful as it might be, has sparked interest in the 'Turkish model' of democracy-craft, i.e. the art of conducting democratic affairs, which in Turkey involves the military playing a stabilizing role during the transition process while Islamist parties moderate through political participation. Can Turkey's experience be repeated in Egypt? "
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