"Turkey politics: Who's afraid of the AKP?
August 29th 2007 Printer version COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT On the first day of Abdullah Gul’s presidency, it is business as usual in Ankara’s bustling Kizilay district. In the doner kebab queue, women in various degrees of Islamic dress mingle with others sporting shoulder straps and shorts. Efes Pilsen sunshades mark out the bars. Across the footbridge, idle riot police watch students flirt. Only a few tradesmen heed the call to prayer. Yet critics of the ruling Justice and Democracy Party (AKP), caution that things are different in the conservative suburbs and provinces, where the party's Islamist roots are more clearly visible. Even in Turkey's urban centres, they say, much could change over the next few years."
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