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Turkey: Protests and US policy shape events - FT.com

Turkey: Protests and US policy shape events

By Daniel Dombey

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister who towers over his country’s politics, was on barnstorming form. “The sleeping giant has awoken,” he declared before a meeting of business executives in Istanbul in September. “Our economy is no longer fragile ... We have carried our country to a new level.”

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