"Here's What Happens to the Eye You Don't Use
By Soner Cagaptay
Jerusalem Post, November 8, 2010
The demise of Turkey's secular parties in the past decade is an example of what happens to an eye one does not use: It stops functioning properly.
This is precisely what happened to the secular parties in Turkey. These factions ruled the country until 2002, when the Justice and Development Party (AKP), rooted in Turkey's once-isolated Islamist opposition, came to power. Since then, the AKP has displayed a voracious political appetite, as if to compensate for decades without power. The party has aggressively consolidated its influence at home and mastered grassroots politics. "
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