Progress in Turkey
Rejecting Turkey, And the Future (washingtonpost.com)
Here's a quiz: Over the past two years, which developing country has undertaken the most dramatic economic, political and social reforms in the world? Some hints: This country has deregulated its economy, simplified its tax code and put its fiscal house in order, resulting in 8.2 percent growth this year and a 10 percent rise in productivity. It has passed nine packages of major reforms that have reduced the military's influence in government, enshrined political dissent and religious pluralism, passed strict laws against torture, abolished the death penalty, and given substantial rights to a long-oppressed minority.
Fareed Zakaria makes an incisive argument for integrating Turkey into the European Union. Of course, it is not up to us.
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