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Originally Published in 2003:

So what if Turks missed $6 billion in grants and $20 billion in loan guarantees. What is the price of the dignity for a nation? Better or worse, so called the inexperienced administration of libero-conservative/religious administration of AK Party has done a great job handling neo-Con pressure from DC.  In fact, it was the Bush administration who showed total lack of experience and ignorance in international diplomacy since the beginning of this latest world crisis.  Now, Turkish political elite who had been taken the country into an unknown future in last 50 years is gone,  there is a whole new attitude towards world politics now in Ankara. Turkish capital is no longer under the spell of  the “real-politik” of a quazi-democratic military regime who blindly followed an outdated Kemalist ideology which was created long after the death of  one the great  leaders of the Twentieth Century, Kemal Ataturk.

Islamic or not, Turkish people want change. Based on the analysis of last general elections, pity to Turkish politics, only one part offered that change. That party was no other than AKP led by the Islamist mayor of one of the largest cities in the world, Istanbul. Long time ago, some one told me that things can only get worse so much, at the end it only gets better. It is time for Turkish nations to get better now. Perhaps, once a country bashed by the rest of the world could very well be an example of democracy to the rest of the world.