Turkey, Iran, and the West
August 19th, 2008 by Adam
Soner Cagaptay in the Los Angeles Times is troubled by the implications of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent trip to Turkey. Cagaptay says in the past a visit by an anti-Western autocrat, especially one so diametrically opposed to Turkey’s secular principles, would have been extremely controversial. However, according to Cagaptay, the expanding ties between Ankara and Tehran reflect a weakening devotion to secularism and democracy in Turkey and Cagaptay warns that, “Years from now, Ahmadinejad’s visit to Istanbul will be remembered as the tipping point at which the West lost Turkey, and Turkey lost its soul.”
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