But even if the AKP's rise to power was eminently predictable, its ability to consolidate its control over just about every organ of governance in Turkey as well as what was once a thriving free press, and change completely Turkey's strategic posture in just seven years was far from inevitable.
What Turkey has is a central bank that has brought it to the abyss with a disastrous move to float the lira, resulting in a harmful devaluation that has destroyed banks and businesses.
Carrying 850 metric tons of wheat flour, the trucks crossed the border from Turkey in what was called a "test run" of the feasibility of that corridor.
Ambassador HANSJORG KRETSCHMER (European Commission): We should not forget that what Turkey is trying to achieve in these years is rather a revolutionary change of attitudes which have been ingrained in Turkey for many decades.
Last week, it emerged that Brig-Gen Tlas had escaped Syria via Turkey, in what correspondents described as a significant blow to the Assad regime.
But, again, that's something that's going to have to move forward not based on what the United States says, but rather a dialogue between the European Union members and Turkey.
This year he completed what is believed to be the first ever fracture stimulation procedure in Turkey: injecting a mixture of water and sand at high pressure down the wells to break up rock and release gas.
Prof Yanis Varoufakis, head of the Department of Economic Policy at the University of Athens, says that Turkey's experience of 15 years ago provides a stark lesson of what might happen if the country were to leave the euro.
And what the United States wants to do is just to continue to encourage discussions and talks and a process whereby Turkey can feel confident that it has a friendship with France, with the United States, with all of Europe, and that it -- to the extent that it's defining itself as part of Europe, that it has an opportunity to be a part.
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