A quick roundup of Turkey's political fight, after the murder of a judge
05/22 07:08 PM
It figures that one of the weekends I’m out of town, the whole world’s eyes focus on Turkey. And not just Turkey, but my current hometown of Ankara. Arrgh. So let me give you the quick scoop on the recent murder of judge Mustafa Yucel Ozbilgin, and the resulting fallout, a flare-up of the country’s secular vs. Islamist tensions.
Michael Rubin has periodically been writing about Turkey on NRO, and had two useful Corner postings updating readers. Rubin is an exceptional scholar, and I agree with much of what he has said about Turkey on NRO. My only quibble would be that sometimes he makes it sound like the ruling Islamist party, AKP, is successfully making drastic and rapid changes to a historically secular nation.
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