Despite growing pains , a neglected Kurdish minority in the south , a thin skin for any reference to the Armenian genocide , and failure to scrap a law that makes insulting Turkishness a crime , Turkey stands out as lively democracy in a larger Middle East riddled with restrictions , and its acceptance by the West is a test case for others , officials said .
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