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Naples Council on World Affairs Lecture Series

Dr. Steven Cook: “Turkey’s Lost Democracy”

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In 2005, Turkey began formal negotiations to join the European Union, but a little more than a decade later it looks less like a liberal democracy than a one-man electoral autocracy. What went wrong? What are the implications for the U.S. approach to Turkey and the future of its alliance with the West.