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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

The Turkish Elections: What’s at Stake? » The Moderate Voice

"The Turkish Elections: What’s at Stake?

By Jeb Koogler

Anwar Ibrahim, writing in The Washington Post recently, makes a very compelling argument about the upcoming Turkish elections. Although the situation is often painted as a conflict between Islamism and secularism, this characterization is misleading. Instead, Ibrahim argues, the elections are a struggle “between the forces of freedom and democracy on the one hand and authoritarianism on the other.”"

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