While violence seems to consume so much of the Muslim world, a different kind of Islamic revolution is taking place in Turkey. We could say that a new "model" is in the making. It's not the example ...
Regarding your recent article on the Egyptian presidential elections, Turkey has no claims or aspirations to be a ”model” for the Middle East (“Slouching toward democracy,” June 27). We are ready to ...
In this season of anti-autocratic uprisings in Arab countries, Muslim Turkey is cited as a model for how democracy might evolve in other Arab... Turkish Democracy: A Model For Other Countries? NPR's ...
The document empowered Turkey's military to police the political arena. Wahid Abdel-Maguid, a political insider who has been a key player during Egypt's transition, agrees that Field Marshal Hussein ...
Turkey’s Cyprus Model Could Destroy the International Liberal Order: Today marks the 50th anniversary of Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus. Turkish arguments that they intervened to protect the Cypriot ...
In the Arab states that have ousted dictators and begun building new political and economic systems, many are looking to Turkey as an example of a modern, moderate Muslim state that works. Perhaps no ...
The Turkish economy is booming and changes to the constitution have expanded rights for women and minorities. Washington Post columnist Jackson Diehl argues that while the Turkish government has its ...
The violent unrest upending Turkey raises a question: Is President Obama right in thinking that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a model leader? He calls Mr. Erdogan a close friend, and they ...
In an influential book in 1991, Samuel Huntington established the “two-turnover” test to distinguish between emerging and consolidated democracies. For a democracy to be consolidated, according to the ...
Both pundits and diplomats are suggesting that a post-Mubarak Egypt might adopt a “Turkish model,” a reference to the supposed balance between political Islam and democracy. The irony, however, is ...
With a migrant crisis engulfing Europe, civil war in Syria and a proliferation of terror groups in the region, Turkey finds itself as a geopolitical hotspot. WSJ's ...