Michael Rubin and Turkey

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The Enterprise Blog:

Danielle Pletka
6/3/10

I don’t usually use this space for bragging, but with all the attention being paid to Turkey in the wake of its decision to join the pro-Iran camp and the flotilla stunt, I thought it useful to remind our kind readers that AEI scholar Michael Rubin was really ahead of this curve, warning about Turkey’s radical turn years ago. Take a gander at:

• “Shifting Sides? The Problems of Neo-Ottomanism,” National Review Online, August 10, 2004
• “Green Money, Islamist Politics in Turkey,” Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2005
• “Turkish Turnback,” National Review Online, October 19, 2005
• “Mr. Erdogan’s Turkey,” Wall Street Journal, October 19, 2006
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