"...In Uzbekistan, the basic alternative to power is in effect radical Islamists allowed to legalise themselves by the Western recipe. These were the same forces that engineered the revolt in Andizhan. Incidentally, by insisting on the liberalisation of the Turkish political regime (virtually a condition for acceptance into the EU), Europe is unwittingly contributing to the development of an Islamic movement as an alternative to Kemal Ataturk's secular state..."
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