Indeed, in some ways it counts for more than when the Ottoman empire was crumbling a century ago and Turkey was widely known as the "sick man of Europe".

今天的土耳其确实在很多方面都比那个曾在一个世纪以前奥斯曼帝国土崩瓦解后被称作“欧洲病人”的土耳其进步许多。

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Turkey and Norway were the only NATO members to border the Soviet Union. But Turkey's pro-Western stance led it to neglect its neighbourhood, including many countries once in the Ottoman empire.

北约成员国中只有土耳其和挪威与苏联接壤，但土耳其亲西方的立场使其忽视了邻居，其中包括很多曾经属于奥斯曼帝国的国家。

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Turkey and Norway were the only NATO members to border the Soviet Union.But Turkey's pro-Western stance led it to neglect its neighbourhood, including many countries once in the Ottoman empire.

北约成员国中只有土耳其和挪威与苏联接壤，但土耳其亲西方的立场使其忽视了邻居，其中包括很多曾经属于奥斯曼帝国的国家。

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Historians agree Armenians were massacred by the Ottoman Empire - what was to become Turkey - during World War I.

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So that if you say in 1915 there were two million Armenians in what we call Turkey, but the Ottoman Empire - there are now about 60,000 Armenians in Turkey.

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Erdogan Toprak, deputy chairman of the opposition Republican People's Party, has said the prime minister "would like to bring the sultan back" - a reference to the old days of the Ottoman Empire before Turkey become a republic.

BBC: Is Turkey's secular system in danger?

In an interview this month with the opposition Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review, former Turkish president Suleyman Demirel warned that the AKP has established "an empire of fear" in Turkey.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Turkey's cautionary tale

Ninety years ago, on the night of 24 April, the government of Ottoman Turkey rounded up about 250 leaders of the empire's Armenian community.

BBC: NEWS | Europe | Armenians remember mass killings