EVENTS IN RECENT months have raised questions about Turkey’s ability to sustain its head-spinning recovery and growth since the devastating financial crises of 2001. And more twists and turns are surely in store as the country navigates the dynamics of Kurdish separatists in neighbouring Iraq, a looming US-Iranian showdown over nuclear intentions, unending trouble with Armenia in the volatile Caucasus next door. At home, there’s a new government, divisive internal debate about the bedrock of Turkey’s secular constitution, and vulnerabilities springing from high oil and gas prices in a country surrounded by producers but itself energy-poor.
However, Turkey has continued to defy the pessimists.
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