By Rick Moran
For more than a decade, Turkey's leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has turned his country from a largely secular, mostly free democracy into an Islamist state. In some ways, it happened so gradually that until very recently, there were several European countries who were sponsoring Turkey's proposed membership in the E.U.
That's almost certainly not going to happen now, as Erdoğan has concentrated most of the power of the state in the hands of the president. His stranglehold on power and his growing hostility to the West have precipitated a debate over whether U.S. nuclear weapons based in Turkey should be withdrawn.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/06/growing_concerns_about_us_nuclear_weapons_in_turkey.html#ixzz4tZ26WpYS For more than a decade, Turkey's leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has turned his country from a largely secular, mostly free democracy into an Islamist state. In some ways, it happened so gradually that until very recently, there were several European countries who were sponsoring Turkey's proposed membership in the E.U.
That's almost certainly not going to happen now, as Erdoğan has concentrated most of the power of the state in the hands of the president. His stranglehold on power and his growing hostility to the West have precipitated a debate over whether U.S. nuclear weapons based in Turkey should be withdrawn.
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