"Talking Turkey at the EU
ANDREW CISAKOWSKI / cisa@vueweekly.com
In a surprise early election to be held this coming Sunday in Turkey, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his mildly Islamist AK party are expected to cruise to victory, defeating a splintered secularist opposition. The real battle, though, may take place between the AK party and Turkey’s meddlesome generals. The military views protecting Turkey’s secularism as its utmost duty, and doesn’t like the AK party’s religious leanings. In April, the army hinted that, if Erdogan returns to power unopposed, another military coup (the fifth in Turkey’s history) might be looming."
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