ANKARA: Turkey has the capacity to impact the entire world and that it is for that reason the Western world hesitates to use Turkey as a model country.
This was stated bybRenowned Islamic scholar and the leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party, Rashid al-Ghannushi.
Sheikh Ghannushi believes that on July 15 history stood still and fortunately history continued to progress after the coup attempt failed.
He said that the Turkish people have proven their commitment to democracy while the executives proved they have the merits to lead Turkey. Regarding the future of the Arab Spring, Ghannushi said that the region is transitioning into democracy, noting that it may take five years for a country to complete this transition, for another it may take ten years.
Commenting on why first Turkey and then Tunisia is now being demonstrated as a model country in the Islamic world, Ghannushi underlined that Turkey has the capacity to impact the entire world and that it is for that reason the Western world hesitates to use Turkey as a model country. Ghannushi also said that if a Sunni state had supported the Sunni population, as Iran does to the Shiite population in the region, Daesh would never have emerged.
