"Turkey:
Written by Milosz Matuschek
Wednesday, 08 February 2006
Image EDITO - Turkey is a battlefield for forces fighting for secular modernity on one side and those promoting religious traditionalism on the other side. This struggle reveals an alarming gap between state and society. The idea to fill this gap by an accession to the EU would be a mistake.
While Gaul was ethnically divided in three parts (gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres), as Julius Cesar states at the beginning of his famous report about the war in Gaul “de bello gallico”, modern Turkey seems to be divided in three parts, as well – at least as far as the attitude of its people is concerned. The first division can be remarked between state and society, and society in itself is divided in a modern Western part and a traditional Islamic part. "
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