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Inside the Middle East: "Turkey: A Model for Democracy?" with Amb. Francis Ricciardone

December 23 2015 Series: Inside the Middle East

Excerpt from an October 16 installment of the “Inside the Middle East" Q&A Series, with Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone, Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Atlantic Council Vice President and Director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, on Turkey's role as a potential model for democracy in the Middle East, including recent setbacks within the context of long-term, qualitative gains.

Watch the clip from the interview with Ambassador Ricciardone, conducted by Kevin Moss, Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy and Master's Candidate at the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, here:

Listen to the full interview below:

For more about the Harvard Journal of Middle East Politics and Policy (JMEPP), click here.

For more information on this publication: Please contact Middle East Initiative
For Academic Citation: “Inside the Middle East: "Turkey: A Model for Democracy?" with Amb. Francis Ricciardone.” , December 23 2015.
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