"Erbakan's legacy
What a prime minister’s funeral says about democracy and Islam
HE WAS booted out by Turkey’s generals in what became known as the postmodern coup in 1997. One even called him “a pimp”. He was jailed and his party banned. Yet the top brass were among thousands of Turks at the funeral of Turkey’s first Islamist prime minister, Necmettin Erbakan, on March 1st (poignantly, a day after the coup’s 14th anniversary). The chief of the general staff hailed Mr Erbakan’s “great services to our country as a valued man of science and politics”."
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