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The Turkish Stockholm Syndrome
By ANDREW FINKEL
Andrew Finkel has been a foreign correspondent in Istanbul for over 20 years, as well as a columnist for Turkish-language newspapers. He is the author of the book “Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know.”
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s Western-oriented and often Western-educated elite, including bankers and industrialists, has never had much affection for the ruling Justice and Development Party, known as A.K.P.
It considers those party officials to be dull provincials, blinkered by religious conservatism and uncomfortable to see men and women mix as equals. This suspicion also applies to a rival business elite based in the Anatolian heartland, far from the sophisticated coastal cities, that the A.K.P. has nurtured since it emerged in 2001.
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The Turkish Stockholm Syndrome
By ANDREW FINKEL
Andrew Finkel has been a foreign correspondent in Istanbul for over 20 years, as well as a columnist for Turkish-language newspapers. He is the author of the book “Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know.”
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s Western-oriented and often Western-educated elite, including bankers and industrialists, has never had much affection for the ruling Justice and Development Party, known as A.K.P.
It considers those party officials to be dull provincials, blinkered by religious conservatism and uncomfortable to see men and women mix as equals. This suspicion also applies to a rival business elite based in the Anatolian heartland, far from the sophisticated coastal cities, that the A.K.P. has nurtured since it emerged in 2001.
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