"DALE: A fatal mistake
EU should embrace Turkey
Helle Dale
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
OP-ED:
Ask Turks whether they believe their country can be a model for a secular Muslim state and the answer is not quite as affirmative as one might have hoped. Today, the chasm between secular and religious Turks is growing ever-wider, and the strains within the Turkish state are seriously showing. The Turkish Constitutional Court is expected to rule in the next few weeks on whether the Turkish governing party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which is fundamentalist Muslim in nature, is subverting the country's political system. The court has further been asked to decide whether the president, the prime minister and 71 of its other members should be banned from politics for five years - as requested by Turkey's chief prosecutor. "
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