"Fears for the future Turkey is changing from a secular state to a new hybrid combining modernity and tradition: but secularists won't give up their freedoms easily.
The election of Abdullah Gül as president Turkey has been a long slog: five eventful months in which his candidacy first brought millions out onto the streets in protest, then brought down the government - subsequently re-elected in a landslide victory with 46% of the vote - and finally brought the military, historically the most respected and collective organ in the nation, to more or less admit defeat to factional politics."
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