This time, however, it is modernity, not exoticism, that is the source of fascination. But, because of its secular tradition (now being challenged by the current regime), its non-Arab identity, its behavior towards its Kurdish minority, and the ambivalence of the Ottoman legacy, Turkey is as much a counter-model as a model.
今天，阿拉伯世界对土耳其的态度类似过去的欧洲。不过这次是现代化、而不是异国情调对他们产生了诱惑力。但是由于土耳其的世俗传统（现在正面临现政府的挑战）、它的非阿拉伯特质、它对库尔德少数族裔的作为和对奥斯曼帝国遗产的矛盾心理，土耳其既是光辉榜样，也是反面典型。它是阿拉伯世界投射恐惧和希望的一面镜子。