Two questions

Reader comment on item: Turkey's Radical Turn?

Submitted by Randy McDonald (Canada), Aug 5, 2003 at 17:56

In this context, last week's vote represents the AKP throwing down the gauntlet. Ignoring the military's objections, it passed laws in the context of preparing Turkey for European Union membership that heavily restrict the generals' political influence.

This action raises two questions: Will the flag officers accept this limitation? And is this the start of a process that could transform Turkey, for 80 years the stalwart of secularism in the Muslim Middle East, into an Islamic republic?...

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