"ANKARA PROTEST OPENS WINDOW ON TURKEY’S BREWING CULTURE WAR
Nicholas Birch 4/16/07
Draped in flags, 370,000 Turks rallied in Ankara on April 14 against their religious-minded prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It was a demonstration that emphasized both the intense opposition that Erdogan will face if he stands for president, and the depths of Turkey’s cultural division.
Among the slogans chanted by protesters as they marched to the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey’s founder, were: 'Turkey is secular and will stay secular' and 'We don’t want an imam in the presidential palace.'"
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