"Syria and ‘the happy Turk’
The brutal crackdown in Syria is still being reported from a Western perspective: as a “Middle East” affair. Like the related “Near East” and “Far East”, the name makes sense only if one assumes that a region is defined by its location relative to Europe and the US. However, Europeans may need to adjust to seeing things from the viewpoint of a rising power: Turkey."
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