"Turkey at the boiling point
By James F. Hoge Jr. Tribune Media Services
Published: May 22, 2007
ISTANBUL:
Two simmering problems threaten to boil over in Turkey this summer with greater international consequences than ever before.
First is the relationship between the Islamic religion and the state that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded in 1923 and whose secular nature the army has protected ever since. Second is the raids against Turkish troops by terrorists from Turkey's minority Kurdish population who are now camped across the border in Iraq."
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