"Turkey’s secularists step up anti-govt campaign
By Paul de Bendern
The powerful secularist establishment, which includes the president, the military and judiciary, sees the AKP, rooted in political Islam, as posing a mortal threat to the status quo
THE founding newspaper of modern Turkey is warning of Islamic fundamentalism in a media campaign seen as a secularist fightback against the government.
“Are you aware of the danger,” reads the front page headline in Cumhuriyet (Republic), written in Turkish but in Arabic style from right to left. It has also run on television. The Arabic style is a coded suggestion to Turks that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) wants to reverse the reforms of Turkey’s revered founder Kemal Ataturk, which included replacing the Arabic script with the Latin for Turkish. "
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