"Turkey Votes
The AKP may not be the same as Hamas, but their ideology does kill innocent people.
by Stephen Schwartz
07/24/2007 12:00:00 AM
TURKEY'S REELECTION OF incumbent prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP, or Justice and Development Party, has reenergized the low-level debate in Washington about foreign Islamic parties that claim to respect democracy and secularism. But for the AKP--no less than its rivals in the Turkish military and secular state structures--the positive element lacking in their outlook involves pluralism, more than either politics or prayers."
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