Global Alert: Turkey's Fundamentalist Turn
by Brian Stewart Aug 21, 2012 11:45 AM EDT
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"A man's got to believe something, and I believe I'll have another drink." That line belonged to Peter De Vries, of whom one would be hard-pressed to find many admirers among the AKP, the Turkish ruling party with a distinctly pious bent. In recent months, not least during Ramadan, the AKP has taken care to restrict the consumption of alcohol, even in the traditionally liberal precincts of Istanbul.
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