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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Islam taking root in Turkey's bureaucracy - International Herald Tribune

"Islam taking root in Turkey's bureaucracy

DENIZLI, Turkey: The little red prayer book was handed out in a public primary school here in western Turkey earlier this month. It was small enough to fit in a pocket, but it carried a big message: Pray in the Muslim way. Get others to pray, too.

"The message was clear to me," said a retired civil servant, whose 13-year-old son, a student at the Yesilkoy Ibrahim Cengiz school, received the book. "This is not something that should be distributed in schools.""

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