"Obama Impresses Many on Both Sides of Turkey’s Secular and Religious Divide
By SABRINA TAVERNISE and SEBNEM ARSU
Published: April 6, 2009
To the world, Turkey is a Muslim country that is a logical starting point for President Obama’s outreach to the Muslim world.
But for Turkey — a country that has experienced political convulsions recently over how Islam fits with an open society — that identity is so rife with conflict that it has drawn millions to the streets and nearly caused the government to fall."
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