Turkey under attack: The ‘challenge’ of Turkey

Kemal Dervis
Economically, politically, institutionally, Turkey needs the ‘anchor’ of the European integration process. Europe and Turkey together must prove to themselves, and to the world, that Huntington’s ‘clash of civilisations’ is not unavoidable

Samuel Huntington did alert us to the danger. In his now famous thesis on the ‘Clash of Civilisations’ he gave Turkey as an example of a ‘torn country’, one divided internally, according to him, between East and West, a country neither in Europe nor in the Middle East, with a fault line running within rather than at the border.