Ed Cohen, overall the NYT's best columnist on foreign affairs, points out just how well Turkey is doing by ignoring American and European Union control attempts.
At some point, Kemalists and Muslim political parties alike may decide EU membership isn't worth the hoops. Turkey would qualify, now, on both economic structure and civil liberties, but, it's the "they're not really us" hoops that still stand.
Cohen didn't note how Obama really hasn't diverged much from Bush in this area of foreign policy, sadly. It was mainly Congressional GOP numbnuts who exploded in wrath after the Gaza flotilla incident, but, Ankara had been getting a certain degree of benign neglect from the White House before that.
Given all the Turkic "-stans" in Central Asia, that's stupid.
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