In past years Turkey, a functioning democracy and NATO’s only Muslim-majority member, often was presented by the United States as a model for the autocratic Arab Middle East. When the Arab Spring buffeted the region, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey saw an opportunity to promote this idea
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