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Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Analysis: Back to bickering over Ataturk’s dream

"Analysis: Back to bickering over Ataturk’s dream
Christopher Torchia

rotesters fear that Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul (picture) would use the presidency to assist his ally, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in chipping away at the separation of state and religion.
THE possibility of an observant Muslim president is pitting Turkey’s deeply secular military and civilian establishment against its religiously oriented ruling party in a fundamental struggle over national identity."

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