"Outside View: Turkey's political schism
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Published: May. 11, 2007 at 8:36 PM
By RAYMOND J. MAS
UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, May. 11 (UPI) -- The confrontation between Turkey's ruling Islamist party, the AKP, and those who view themselves as defenders of the nation's secularist tradition reveals a schism in Turkish society that runs deep and threatens to challenge the basic assumptions that have governed this state since its founding in 1927."
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