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Islam Besieges Turkey’s Secular Government As Nation Knocks At Door Of European Union | NewsReal Blog

"Islam Besieges Turkey’s Secular Government As Nation Knocks At Door Of European Union
2010 February 28

by John L. Work

A Muslim siege is re-born in Turkey. Since the founding of modern Turkey in 1923 by secular military officer Kemal Ataturk, there has been an ongoing battle between the military services and the forces of political Islam over how the nation shall be governed – by Sharia (Muslim law) or by secular democratic methods. The recent arrests of fifty senior Turkish military officers, charging twenty of them with a 2003 plot to overthrow the government, demonstrate that Islam and Sharia are alive and well in that nation."

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