Tuesday 12 June 2012

Despite Istanbul's splendour, Turkey's not quite on the mark - The National

We all love lists, don't we? Well, here's a list of a few reasons why Turkey will remain an "emerging" market for the foreseeable future.

Without wishing to appear ungrateful to the country where I just spent a pleasant week in the Ottoman splendour of Istanbul, I left with the impression it still had some way to go before it could fulfil its ambitions to be the "role model" for the rest of the Muslim world.

You might dismiss my observations as a tourist's gripes, but I think they're symptomatic of inherent flaws in the country's development:

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