"Turkey Continues to Backslide
July 27, 2007 01:00 PM EST
There are many people, even American conservatives, who think that the reelection of Prime Minister Erdogan's AK party is a good thing of Turkish democracy and for the Middle East. There are people who have deluded themselves that Erdogan is nothing more than a Turkish version of a Christian Democrat, and that he, and he alone, can bridge the divide between the secularism of the Kemalist republic and the Islamic beliefs of the average Turk."
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