Friday, December 26, 2014

Why Does Nobody Want to Play with Turkey?

Why Does Nobody Want to Play with Turkey?

by Burak Bekdil
December 26, 2014 at 5:00 am

Turkey is too big, too Islamist and too un-European for the EU; it is too little Islamist and a disliked former colonial power for most of the Arab street; a sectarian and regional rival for Iran, and a security threat to the bigwigs in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

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