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November 15, 2002       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=230874&contrassID=2&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

Turkey Transformed

(Ha'aretz) Peter Preston - A nation of 68 million goes to the polls. Not a single MP from the previous coalition survives. The party of the departing prime minister, which received 22 percent last time round, nets 1 percent. Both the new party of government and the new opposition are new to parliament. Last summer, while the rest of Europe slept, this same nation (within a matter of weeks) abandoned the death penalty, lifted draconian curbs on its press, and reached out inclusively toward the separatist minority it had repressed for decades - the biggest victory for human rights in two decades. It is time to talk about Turkey and Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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