Turkey Features - The Final Pangs of Modernisation

urkey, for so long that barometer of emerging market confidence, is pushing itself headlong into EU membership and international investor acceptance. However, as Soli özel, professor of international relations and political science at Istanbul Bilgi University and currently a visiting fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford University, explains, the country is beset by economic and political handicaps that still hold it to ransom.