"Turkey and the Arab Spring
Judah Grunstein | Bio | 06 May 2011
There's an emerging consensus that, after a promising start, Turkey has had a bad Arab Spring. Anthony Shadid suggested yesterday in the New York Times that the unrest threatens Turkey's newfound regional influence, while Steven Cook argued in Foreign Policy that the Arab uprisings represent a kind of 'emperor has no clothes' moment for Ankara, exposing the hollowness underlying Turkey's much-vaunted rise. I'd like to weigh in on this, especially since I recently flagged the Turkish Model as a promising foreign policy approach for Egypt, the Palestinians and the region in general."
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