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Turkey: The consequences of authoritarianism
[AlAhram] For all intents and purposes, Ottoman Turkish aspirations for accession to the EU are blocked, to the eminent chagrin of Erdogan.

There was once a time, from the 1980s to the opening years of this millennium, when there were high hopes in both The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-03-03
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