"George Z. Bush" wrote in message
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Johannes Madel wrote:

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turkey ( a very undemocratic country, but it was an important border
to
communism)

I beg your pardon! Turkey is and has been a republican parliamentary
democracy
since Ataturk founded it in 1923. It offers its citizens universal
suffrage at
age 18, and I believe it recently had (and perhaps still has) a female
prime
minister.

George Z.



Well yes but its also had its periods of military dictatorship, the
last being in 1980 IRC with a civilian government being
restored in 1983.

Keith