Since 2002, the year the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, came to power in Turkey, alarming pieces have appeared once in a while in the American or Israeli media, asking whether the country is turning its face “to the East,” rather than to the West. The article by Caroline Glick in the Jerusalem Post three days ago was not even asking that question. The title rather reflected certainty about what is going on: “Turkey´s abandonment of the West.”

  According to Ms. Glick, the fact that the Turkish government was hosting “Iran´s genocidal, nuclear weapons-seeking leader, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,” or that it had good relations with Syria, talked to Hamas, and was turning “Islamist,” was enough evidence to conclude that the good-old Western-friendly Turkey is long gone.

  But is that really the case?

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