Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino angered the Turkish government recently when she suggested two seemingly irreconcilable Turkeys had emerged following the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's mismanaging the Gezi Park protests by releasing a heavy-handed police force on peaceful demonstrators.
“Two Turkeys have emerged and there is no hope left that Erdogan can unite them,” Bonino, a proven friend of Turkey and an avid supporter of Ankara’s bid for EU membership, told reporters in Rome on June 18, according to the Italian news agency ANSA cited by the mainstream Turkish media.
