Friday, September 17, 2010

Turkey and the End of Secularism?

"Turkey and the End of Secularism?

September 17, 2010 - The Editor

At the weekend, Turkey had a referendum. The population of the nation voted to amend the constitution, a constitution that had been re-written in 1980. On Monday (September 13) Turkey’s president Abdullah Gul told reporters that:

“All the articles in the constitutional amendment package are about bringing Turkey's standards to the European level under Turkey's European Union membership process.”"

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