"What Turks really think about the Arab uprising
ISTANBUL, February 5, 2011 — I'm being asked by everyone I know how Turkey is responding to the uprising in Egypt. The assumption in the question is that Turks must be really be quite interested in these events. The assumption is dead wrong.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan did give quite a canny speech last week upon realizing that Mubarak was doomed. There's a reason he's a successful politician. He did not actually call for anything, although somehow, immediately, he was understood to have 'taken the side of the Arab people.'"
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