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Press Clips: Turkey’s New Influence, America’s Opportunity

Although he died more than seven decades ago, the image of Turkey’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, still adorns key chains and government buildings in Ankara. But in the Middle East today, it is another, less secular, Turk who is stealing the show.

That’s the lead of a piece that appeared in Sunday’s edition of “The National” and expands on an earlier EconoMonitor post of mine about Turkey (Turkophobia? Get Over It). Good to get that argument in to the region’s bloodstream. Read it here.

 

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