"Why Turks Don’t Like NATO
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By Marc Champion
In the vexed debate over whether Turkey is shifting its axis to the east, a new study suggests that if it is, then that may be more about old-fashioned nationalism than rising Islamism.
The study by the Betam research center at Istanbul’s Bahcesehir University crunches the data from seven years of a multi-national trends survey produced annually by the German Marshall Fund. The most interesting finding is that, when broken down by voting preference, the Turks who have swung the least against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization turn out to be those who vote for the country’s Islamic-leaning government led by the Justice and Development Party, or AK Party"
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