30/06/2010 12:12
Islamic Republic of Turkey is reality and danger, says Rubin
“The fact is that Turkey has changed. Gone, and gone permanently, is secular Turkey, a unique Muslim country that straddled East and West and that even maintained a cooperative relationship with Israel. Today Turkey is an Islamic republic whose government saw fit to facilitate the May 31 flotilla raid on Israel’s blockade of Gaza,” History News Network reposted commentaries by Michael Rubin, a former political advisor at the Bush administration, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School.
“Turkey is now more aligned to Iran than to the democracies of Europe,” says Michael Rubin.
“The Islamic Republic of Turkey is a reality -- and a danger.
“The story of Turkey’s Islamic revolution is … the story of a charismatic leader with a methodical plan to unravel a system, a politician cynically using democracy to pursue autocracy,” stated Rubin.