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Turkey’s Erdogan’s unseemly rush into the past

Country lost momentum when the prime minister started to mix the economy with ideology

By Mohammad Al Asoomi, Special to Gulf News
Published: 12:13 January 22, 2014

There is no question that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has managed to bring about a qualitative leap within a decade during which Turkey achieved an economic miracle — per capita income shot up four-fold to $10,000 (Dh36,700) and GDP gained a near similar percentage.

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