"Secularism comes under siege in Turkey
Theo Giantsos | August 01, 2008
THE recent bombings in Istanbul have cast a pall over the precarious state of Turkey's struggling democracy. While its relationship with neighbour and nemesis Greece has improved marginally, internal tensions have escalated into violence in Istanbul. To understand what has gone wrong, one needs to realise that the Turkish democratic experiment has veered wildly between highs and lows since the secular Turkish state was created in the 1920s by Salonica-born Mustafa Ataturk."
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