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Asia Times | Turkish capitalism’s ‘original sin’ | Article

Turkish capitalism’s ‘original sin’

By ÖMER TAŞPINAR

When it comes to Turkey’s problem with democracy today, what happened to the Armenian and Greek populations of Anatolia a century ago might seem irrelevant. Yet the very opposite is true. Turkey will never become a true liberal democracy – one dedicated to the proposition that every citizen deserves equal protection – unless it comes fully to terms with the tragic history of the Anatolian Christians.

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