Barbara Lerner on Turkey on National Review Online
"America’s Neo-Turcophiles
Dangerous illusions about Turkey, Islam, and the EU.
By Barbara Lerner
Turkish columnist Burak Bekdil coined the term “Neo-Turcophile” in a searing, must-read article about the looming threat to secularism posed by the AKP’s continuing attempt to take over all major government power-centers in Turkey. The AKP is an Islamist party, and Neo-Turcophiles (hereafter, “Neos”) are all the foreigners who claim to believe that by supporting the AKP, they are supporting Turkish democracy. "
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