"Analysis: Turkey, a land of paradoxes
By CLAUDE SALHANI (UPI Contributing Editor)
Published: November 17, 2008
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Turkey is a land of many paradoxes. While the Kemalist notions of secularism and the separation of mosque and state are taken seriously, at the same time the state provides funds for the building of mosques, keeps the Sunni clergy on the state's payroll and allows school textbooks that teach that being a Sunni Muslim is part and parcel of the Turkish identity."
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