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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

On Turkish streets, local battles over Islam's role | csmonitor.com

"On Turkish streets, local battles over Islam's role
Amid the deep political crisis over the country's presidency, secularists bemoan an incremental Islamization of everyday life on the local level.
By Yigal Schleifer | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

ISTANBUL, TURKEY - Perched on a high hill overlooking Istanbul's old city, the Pierre Loti cafe is named after a 19th-century French bon vivant whose sensual tales of his time in the Ottoman capital have fueled the imaginations of countless tourists."

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