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The truth behind the "Turkish model" | openDemocracy

The truth behind the "Turkish model"
Ayse Bugra 25 August 2014

Contrary to received wisdom, the “Turkish model” was not based on the entrepreneurial potential of emerging conservative businessmen of Anatolia nurtured by market reforms and the Islamic outlook of the government, but on a regulatory framework changed to allow arbitrary government intervention in support of politically privileged entrepreneurs.

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