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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (480334)	10/23/2003 9:46:27 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Have you reviewed Turkeys setup? Seems to me that may be an example that works Actually, democracy was imposed on Turkey. The people never really asked for it. Turkey had the immense luck of having their all-powerful leader (M. Kemal Ataturk - commander of the army who fought invaders into Ottoman territory after WWI and founded the country right afterwards) decide to install democracy in the country rather than keep the power all for himself. Before he stepped aside for multi-party elections, he basically FORCED the reforms on Turks - among the overnight changes were mandatory Western-style clothes, abolishing religious schools, equal rights (including voting rights) to women, changing the alphabet from Arabic to Latin. All this in 1920s, of course. If it were today, I fear, CNN would have talked about the guy as a brutal dictator forcing stuff on the population of an entire country. Then maybe Bush would want to regime-change the guy :-) Come to think of it, most of Turkey's current struggle with structural problems inherent in its democracy and state institutions can be traced to the fact that they never had to fight for their democracy. It was imposed on them.