Submitted by: Donald Hank
received a setback after military intervention that unseated Egypt’s Morsi”
FULL TEXT:ANKARA – Turkey’s assertive foreign policy, promoting itself as a
role model for the Muslim world, has received a setback after the military
intervention that unseated Egypt’s president Mohamed Morsi, analysts say.
Turkey’s Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP), which faced
down the most widespread protests in its 10-year tenure, had forged close
alliance with Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood.
The Egyptian army’s ouster of the country’s first democratically elected
leader has raised eyebrows in Ankara, which has ambitiously promoted itself
as a regional powerhouse and model democracy in the Middle East.
