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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Thu Aug 27 15:30:22 2015, in response to Re: With allies like this, who needs enemies?, posted by 3-9 on Thu Aug 27 14:57:56 2015. I have a German online acquaintance that's married to a Turk in Germany, and she's somewhat sympathetic to the AKP and its rule because the living conditions of a sizable chunk of the country have improved, and even with the shift to a more oppressive regime, the Kemalists also had a tendency to round up people who said the wrong things and throw away the key. Regardless, from a realist foreign policy standpoint, the best thing for us vis à vis Turkey would have been the liberalization of economics that came under the AKP, but under a far more secularist ruler. Coincidentally, I'd argue that Assad in power is still better than ISIS because there's not going to be some magical secular democratic government there for at least two generations. |
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