"Gaza and the Turkish Option
By CLAUDE SALHANI (Editor, Middle East Times)
Published: January 06, 2009
TURKEY, THE MEDIATOR -- Turkey's President Abdullah Gul (right) and Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Ankara on Dec. 22 to discuss indirect talks that Turkey was mediating between the Jewish state and Syria, just days before the Israeli attacks on Gaza. (ABACAPRESS.COM via Newscom)
The Turkish Republic, quite possibly the only country in the Greater Middle East to have officially adopted a strict ruling on separation of church and state (or in this case, mosque and state), appears to be making two fundamental deviations from this basic tenet which was encrusted in the very foundations of post-Ottoman modern day Turkey."
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