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Turkey's Future and the U.S. Election | World Policy Institute

Turkey's Future and the U.S. Election
July 5, 2016 - 12:02pm
By Oset Babur

It’s often par for the course that elections in the Middle East are fraught with reports of voter fraud, scandals among elected officials, and alarming political rhetoric. Perhaps so many Americans are balking at the 2016 United States election cycle because the setting seems all wrong: this radicalism, this breed of intolerance, is what we expect from the mullahs of the Middle East, not a nation claiming to be the cornerstone of Western democracy.

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