"Can secular Turkey survive democracy?
How reformists can stop the Islamists who have chipped away at Turkey's secularism.
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali, AYAAN HIRSI ALI, a former Dutch legislator and women's activist who now lives in the U.S., recently published her memoir, 'Infidel.'
May 9, 2007
SECULAR AND LIBERAL Turks have had a rude awakening from years of deep slumber. Kemal Ataturk's heritage is about to be destroyed — not by an invading power but from within, by fellow Turks who yearn for an Islamic state.
Ever since Ataturk, Turkey has been divided into those who want to run state affairs on Islamic principles and those who want to keep Allah's will from the public space."
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