Hugh Segal: The world needs more Turkey
National Post Sep 20, 2011 – 7:00 AM ET | Last Updated: Sep 19, 2011 5:04 PM ET
By Hugh Segal
The escalation of official Turkish rhetoric in recent days, betraying both a flash of regional pique and anger at the UN’s recent report on the Israeli interdiction of last year’s Gaza flotilla, should not be allowed to obscure a core geopolitical reality. Turkey is and has what the demonstrators and proponents of the so-called “Arab Spring” desperately seek — a strong, open, deeply-rooted and dynamic democracy. And that has been the Turkish reality for a long time.
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