Monday, July 07, 2008

Turkey: Threat to secular state or modernising force? Ruling party awaits the verdict | World news | The Guardian

"Turkey: Threat to secular state or modernising force? Ruling party awaits the verdict

Constitutional court to rule on old guard attempt to ban AKP leaders from politics

The prospect of successful careers in medicine should have brightened the mood of the four newly qualified doctors. Yet the glow of achievement was overshadowed by foreboding about the future. They feared the strictly secular Turkey they had grown up in was giving way to an Islamist new order where men and women were segregated, alcohol was banned and people were told how to dress."

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