Turkey's Transformers

The AKP Sees Big

Authors: Morton I. Abramowitz, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation and Henri J. Barkey
November/December 2009
Council on Foreign Relations

Turkey hopes to be a global power, but it has not yet become even the regional player that the ruling AKP declares it to be. Can the AKP do better, or will it be held back by its Islamist past and the conservative inclinations of its core constituents?

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