Talking Turkey.(economic and political progress)

From: The National Interest | Date: September 22, 2000| Author: Stone, Norman | Copyright information

THE earthquake of August 1999 struck Turkey very hard, and did so at a time that could not have been worse--at three o'clock in the morning during a summer holiday, when homes were crowded with visiting relatives. But it also struck at a desperately unfortunate moment for Turkey as a whole: the point at which it was at last becoming a First World country. This fact occurred to some of the international teams who came in to help sift through the rubble: with some surprise, they ackn...

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