"Turkish takeout
The FT has an interesting piece about internal Turkish politics and the recent secularist protests:
The European Union is wrapped up in its own internal contradictions. The keystone of its efforts to prop up secular democracy in the Islamic world is the offer to admit Turkey to the EU. But Europe's obvious reluctance to live up to this promise has antagonised Turks of all persuasions. Many Turkish secularists - initially enthusiastic supporters of EU membership - now fear that Islamists are using Brussels as a Trojan horse. They worry that, by constraining the power of the Turkish military to intervene in politics, Brussels is easing the rise of Islamism."
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