"Why the EU strengthens Turkish secularism
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Kalypso Nicolaïdis & Hakan Altınay
The question of whether European Union officialdom has taken sides in the ongoing clash between "secularists" and "Islamists" in Turkey is of profound current concern. Many in the first camp seem to believe so, citing as evidence the way that one EU representative after another dismissed the grounds of the indictment denouncing Turkey's ruling Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, (Justice and Development Party), or AKP, as the "focal point for anti-secular activities." Europe seems to have become, according to some of these secularists, the great co-conspirator against secularism in Turkey � against the very European value the founders of the Republic sought so passionately to affirm."
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