The West’s Turkey Problem
13:03 05/11/2014
Mark Adomanis
PHILADELPHIA, November 5 (RIA Novisti) - As the primary successor to the Ottoman Empire, which had for centuries been considered the greatest enemy of Western Christendom, Turkey was always a rather unlikely member of “the West.” Superpower standoffs, though, can make for the very strangest of bedfellows. Despite deep cultural and historical reasons to doubt its compatibility with Europe, the threat posed by the Soviet Union pushed Turkey into the Western camp during the very first years of the Cold War, a position it has occupied ever since.
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