"Turkey's Secular Forces Oppose Islamist Advance
Shades of Byzantine heritage
ImageMore than a million Turks chanting "Turkey is secular and will remain secular", "Neither Shariah, nor coup d'etat, democratic Turkey" and "No imams in the presidential palace," demonstrated in Istanbul on 29 April after the first failed attempt on 26 April to get Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul elevated to the Presidential Palace by the ruling Islamic- rooted Justice and Development party(AKP) .In an statement later Turkey's powerful secular Armed forces declared that they would safe guard secular Turkey . Two weeks earlier half a million Turks had protested in Ankara after Gul's nomination."
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