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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

World Politics Review | Turkey's AKP: Toward Liberal Reform or Islamization?

"Turkey's AKP: Toward Liberal Reform or Islamization?
Jonathan Kolieb | 02 Apr 2008
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The initiative of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to repeal the country's headscarf ban has received a great deal of attention in both the Turkish and international media over the past month. Analysis has been divided on whether this signals a creeping Islamization of the country or rather, quite to the contrary, it is a signal of growing civil liberties -- a maturing liberal democracy moving towards Western ideas of decency and freedom."

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