Turkey-European Union Relations Quotes

“... the secularists opposed the Constitutional changes based on the argument that proposed changes would further strengthen the hands of the Islamists. Thus, they found themselves in a paradoxical situation, where if they supported fully the democratization process in Turkey, the Islamists would get stronger. The Islamists, on the other hand, started on a road that took them further away from democracy and rule of law and paved a new road onto illiberal democracy.”
― Meltem Müftüler-Baç, Turkey-European Union Relations: Dilemmas, Opportunities, and Constraints