"Beware the 'Turkish Model'
Religious orthodoxy is an ideological beauty contest, in which the winner is always the ugly guy.
By SONER CAGAPTAY
The so-called 'Turkish model,' in which an Islamist party heads an ostensible democracy, has been posited in recent weeks as a likely outcome in post-authoritarian Arab countries. Likely, maybe; but Turkey's experience under the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, suggests that such a path may also be a slippery slope."
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