"Turkish Secularism and the Current Political Stalemate
15/05/2007
Turkey has recently experienced a new shock similar to the successive tremors that the Turkish model witnessed with the emergence of the secular republic in 1923.
Although the army had confined itself to using threats this time and did not intervene to disrupt constitutional institutions, as was the case on previous occasions (1960, 1971, 1980, 1998), the country has actually entered an acute crisis after the collapse of the fragile coalition between the ruling conservative party that is a branch of the Islamic current (Justice and Development Party) on one hand and the military institution which is the guarantor of the secular identity of the state."
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