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Friday, January 15, 2016

Is ‘bon pour l’orient’ governance enough for Turkey? - GÜVEN SAK

Is ‘bon pour l’orient’ governance enough for Turkey?

Turkey belongs to the Middle East. So said 58 percent of respondents to a recent survey conducted by Istanbul’s Kadir Has University. At first I was surprised to see this result. Turks usually prefer to see themselves as being part of Europe. We constantly underline our country’s Europeanness, whether saying that we have the “biggest truck fleet in Europe” or trumpeting our membership in the Erasmus student exchange program. But perhaps things are now changing. The Kadir Has survey, conducted in the first half of December 2015, indicates the emergence of a new pattern. Let me elaborate.

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