April 4, 2008
On March 15, Institute senior fellow Soner Cagaptay published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times highlighting the changes in Turkey since the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002.
Among other things, Cagaptay pointed to the fact that Turkish public opinion has cooled toward the United States and warmed toward Iran since 2002. Although 30 percent of Turks approved of the United States in 2002, only 9 percent did so in 2007. Meanwhile, Turkish approval for Iran rose from 22 percent to 28 percent over the same period.
On March 24, AKP deputy chairman Egemen Bagis responded with his own Los Angeles Times op-ed ("My Party Is Good for Turkey") sharply criticizing Cagaptay's article.
Then, on March 28, the Times took the unusual step of publishing two subsequent op-eds supporting Cagaptay's arguments. The first of these articles was by Cuneyt Serdar, a Turkish-American, while the second article, by Robert Ellis, came from Europe.
Most recently, on April 2, Turkish Daily News columnist Burak Bekdil published an op-ed reviewing the controversy surrounding Cagaptay's article. Bekdil's review includes a satirical multiple-choice test highlighting the roots of anti-Semitism within Turkey's Islamist movement.
Soner Cagaptay is a senior fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute.
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