CHARLIE ROSE: Stephen Kinzer is here. He is the former "New York
Times" foreign correspondent and the author of several books including
"Overthrow" and "Crescent and Star." His new book makes the case that the
United States should build a new relationship with Turkey and Iran. It is
called "Reset -- Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future."
I am pleased to have him here back at this table. Welcome.
STEPHEN KINZER: Great to be with you.
CHARLIE ROSE: Talk to me about Turkey.
STEPHEN KINZER: I think the key to Turkey’s success as a nation has
been that in its 85 years of existence, it has managed to change with the
times. Turkey was founded as an authoritarian country at the time when the
idea of dictatorship was very prominent.
After World War II, the world didn’t like dictatorship anymore. We
wanted democracy. Turkey was a one-party state that voluntarily
transformed itself into a multi-party state with an election. And then the
party that had been in power since the founding of the republic lost and
they left power freely.
See: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11110. See also: Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
, All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
, Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
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