Ayed: Has the Arab Spring come to Turkey?

By:
Nahlah Ayed
/
14 June, 2013
By: Nahlah Ayed
London correspondent for CBC News The National

No. It is however in line with a slight but growing anti-Islamist tone taking root in the region SINCE the Arab Spring. In it is a message for the Islamist beneficiaries of those uprisings, and Turkey’s leaders alike: They are not immune either.

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