"Comment & Analysis
Turkey: Things are not what they seem
Suren Pillay: ANALYSIS
01 August 2007 11:59
The crisis in Turkey has been portrayed, simplistically, as a struggle between secular democracy and Islam. But matters are far more complex.
Last Sunday the Justice and Development Party (AKP), the allegedly Islamist grouping led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, captured many more votes than its opponents in a national poll. For the first time in more than 50 years a governing party was returned to power with an even larger majority. This followed months of speculation about the future of democratic rule in a country oscillating between Europe and Asia."
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