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Turkey’s secular elite often likes to pose to outsiders as the defenders of a democratic and secular order in Turkey against a creeping Islamism they claim is the real agenda of the ruling AK party.
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Conservative Turkish women protest against the country’s top prosecutor’s move to disband the governing Islamic-rooted party in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, March 15, 2008. Chief prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya has asked the Constitutional Court that...
