"Turkey shows that it's different
By Osama Al Sharif, Special to Gulf News
Published: July 28, 2007, 23:03
Turkey's election choice on July 22 does not mark a final disengagement with secularism as some enthusiastic Islamists in the Arab world believe.
The victory of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), whose Islamic roots were too obvious to ignore by the country's secular establishment, opens a new chapter in Turkey's long search to redefine its identity in the 21st century world. That transition may have led to the birth of a hybrid political as well as socio-cultural animal; secular Islamism."
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