Turkey has for centuries been a convenient European metaphor for all that is evil, but in truth there is very little that Turkey stands historically accused of which Europe has also not been guilty. Recently, however, M. Giscard d’Estaing – that great and principled defender of democracy, as the people of the Central African Republic and former empire will be the first to attest – saw fit to resort to the kind of language about Turkey that was straight out of the 17th century.
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