"Turkey's Prime Minister Leads His Country Down a Destructive Path
By Joel J. Sprayregen
It is dismaying to see a country I have admired and worked for propelling itself outside the mainstream of western civilization. Epic statesman Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish republic, replaced religiously ordered Ottoman society (the Sultan was caliph of all Sunni Moslems) with pride in Turkishness. Secularism, protected by the army, became a core value of the Turkish state in modernizing a once great country which lagged behind European nations (Turkey straddles Europe and Middle East). "
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