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The most serious financial and political crisis in its postwar history has put Turkey under pressure to face up to difficult choices it has so far been reluctant to take. The geo-strategically important Nato ally is also the biggest candidate for membership of the European Union.
But the Turkish republic, established in 1923 on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, has appeared increasingly ambivalent in pursuing its founding goal of becoming a prosperous western power in its own right.
"Turkey is torn between modernisation, globalisation and integration with the west on one hand, and its own values, traditions and individuality on the other
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