CIHAN TUĞAL
TURKEY AT THE CROSSROADS?
Ten years ago,Erdoğan’s Turkey was hailed in Washington as an example to
the Muslim world—a free-market, pro-American Islamic democracy with high
growth rates, renowned cultural monuments and beautiful beaches. ‘A
model partner’, Obama affirmed in 2009, as he congratulated the leader
of the Justice and Development Party (akp).footnote^1
<https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii127/articles/cihan-tugal-turkey-at-the-crossroads#note-1>Today,
with perhaps 50,000 oppositionists in jail, including scores of
journalists, politicians, lawyers and civil servants, Turkey is
exporting radical Islamist mercenaries from its Syrian enclaves to Libya
and Azerbaijan, clashing with France, Greece, Israel and Cyprus over
gas-drilling rights in the Eastern Mediterranean and imposing a brutal
occupation regime on swathes of what was once the autonomous Kurdish
zone of Rojava. Predictably, the cry of ‘Who lost Turkey?’ has gone up
within the American foreign-policy establishment, where the main concern
is Ankara’s purchase of Russian missiles.footnote^2
<https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii127/articles/cihan-tugal-turkey-at-the-crossroads#note-2>
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii127/articles/cihan-tugal-turkey-at-the-crossroads
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