"Israel Matzav: An open letter to Turkish friends
An open letter to Turkish friends
The Begin - Sadat Center's Efraim Inbar sends an open letter to his Turkish friends out of concern for the direction that the Turkish government is taking.
In contrast to many in the West who were suspicious of the Islamic credentials of the ruling AKP party, I welcomed the ascendance of the AKP in Turkish politics. I argued that traditional Kemalist secularism needed a religious corrective to help Turkey find a delicate synthesis between rich religious tradition and modernity. I believed that an AKP-led Turkey had the potential to become a true model of moderate Islam for the Islamic world; a world that is grappling, mostly unsuccessfully, with the challenges of modernity."
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