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A Turning Point For Turkey?

From Pajamas Media:

Turkish citizens go to the polls on Sunday for an important election. Will the vote reverse the course of Islamization or move it further down the road of becoming a more Islamic, socially conservative society and a foreign policy more attuned to Iran and Syria than to the United States? Barry Rubin, who is covering the elections for PJM, isn’t optimistic.

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2 Responses to “A Turning Point For Turkey?”

  1. sootytern says:

    Rubin makes the current Turkish government sound very much like our current government in the United States. Fortunately for the Turks, their current government is far more competent and, I believe, more benevolent than our own. A sad state of affairs for us.

  2. pacatrue says:

    Isn’t the current government the one trying to join the EU and such? It’s hardly acting like Iran….

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