Tuesday, July 29, 2008

What Would Ataturk Do? Turkey Battles Over Long-Dead Leader - WSJ.com

"What Would Ataturk Do?
Turkey Battles Over
Long-Dead Leader
By ANDREW HIGGINS
July 29, 2008; Page A1

ANKARA, Turkey -- The Ataturk Thought Association, zealous guardian of the secular creed that guides Turkey, never thought it would come to this.

Its chairman, a retired four-star general, is in jail. Its offices -- plastered with portraits of modern Turkey's founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk -- have been raided by police. Several of its computer hard drives have been seized by investigators. They're hunting for evidence of plots by hard-line secularists to topple Turkey's mildly Islamic government."

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