FT: Turkey’s challenge to Old Europe

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Turkey’s challenge to Old Europe

from FT.com – World, Europe
Ankara no longer sees why it should accept the role of supplicant or cipher. Logic says that Europe has everything to gain and nothing to lose from Turkey’s embrace of modernity, writes Philip Stephens
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