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Originally Posted by Saul Good
The only problem is that Turkey is becoming less like Turkey and more like Iran.
Every time someone wants to show that an Islamic country can operate under a peaceful democracy, they point to Turkey, but even they are reverting back to their old ways.
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there is certainly a strong islamist group in turkey, the secular government has removed a rather large number of top military officials to prevent a possible coup and strengthen the hold of the secular government there...
and the parties that want to move towards a theocratic islamist state while having considerable support, are not large enough to win control of the government...
afaik, the turkish majority still want a secular society and a secular government...
of course, i could be wrong about all of this...