"Modernisers, or atavistic Islamists?
PATRICK SMYTH
WORLD VIEW : Journalists’ arrest has put the nature of Turkey’s ruling part back in the spotlight
SINCE IT came to power in 2002, Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been, depending on your perspective, the poster boy for the successful accommodation of Islamism to democracy and pluralism, or a stalking horse plotting at the heart of Turkish society to undermine its cherished secular state."
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