"Algeria should be a warning to Turkey
Published Date: May 10, 2007
By Victoria Brittain
Fifteen years ago a struggle for power between new forces of political Islam and a military establishment took place in Algeria, paralleling to an alarming degree what is happening in Turkey. This struggle ended in a military coup that plunged Algeria into a cycle of violence; so far 200,000 people have been killed, tens of thousands jailed, a million internally displaced, and tens of thousands exiled. How could such a catastrophe have overtaken a country and political leaders whose prestige reached across the third world in the 1960s and 70s? Algeria is a warning to Turkey that even the towering legacy of Ataturk cannot protect it forever. Algeria's war for independence from France, under the iconic leadership of the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN), became a reference point for African and Palestinian anti-colonial struggles."
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