"Secular Turks say, 'We don't want an imam in the presidential palace.'
Turkey is sometimes held up as an example of a state that successfully combines Islam with secularism. People point to this country as proof that Islam is no barrier to democratic government. However, Islamism (i.e. political Islam) has considerable support in Turkey - enough in fact to give the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) a majority in parliament."
More:Dispatches from the Hogtown Front: Secular Turks say, "We don't want an imam in the presidential palace."