"Turkey faces a litmus test
By Marwan Kabalan, Special to Gulf News
Published: July 04, 2008, 00:07
For the past few years, in particular since the arrival of the Justice and Development Party (known as AKP, the acronym of its Turkish name) to power in November 2002, Turkey has performed as a model to refute the long-held Western theory that Islam and democracy are incompatible. That model seems to be crumbling now. Oddly enough, nonetheless, is that the party, which seeks to abort Turkey's democratic process, is the secular, Western-oriented elite."
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