"Turkey: Islam, Secularism And A National Identity Crisis
The current government of Turkey is led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development (AKP) party, which was amalgamated from banned Islamic parties in 2001. When the party came to power after the general election of Sunday October 30, 2002, Erdogan, the party leader, was not allowed to become prime minister. He had publicly read out a pro-Islamic poem in 1998, and as a result had been convicted of inciting religious hatred, and this prevented him from holding public office."
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