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Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member by tga_d on Thursday March 07, 2024 @03:12PM (#39634043)
To be clear, Turkey has been undergoing pretty decisive democratic backsliding since the mid 2000s. It was added to NATO at the same time as Greece, and at that time, Turkey was the more democratic of the two countries (see, e.g., the electoral democracy index for 1952 on https://v-dem.net/data_analysis/CountryGraph/ ).

edit: note if you're trying to find Turkey by searching on that site, it uses the endonym Türkiye

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Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member by orwin on Thursday March 07, 2024 @04:25PM (#39634754)
Türkiye is probably the first western country to not secure its demographic dividends, with maybe Greece (hard to say because the EU mess things up with free movement of people and stuff). It did not fail hopefully, but the infrastructure gains are small compared to even ex-USSR countries. I fear the same is happening in slow motion in India (we'll see in 15 years i guess).
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