Turkey's Islamist Turn, 10 Years Later
The last vestiges of the country's stable, secular, pro-Western past are fading. If voters rebel, democracy may be imperiled as well.
BY DANIEL PIPES
Is Turkey—due to its size, location, economy and sophisticated Islamist ideology—set to become the West's greatest problem in the Middle East?
A tumultuous decade has passed since the Justice and Development Party was first elected to office on Nov. 3, 2002. Almost unnoticed, the country exited the pro-Western era started by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938) and entered the anti-Western era of Recep Tayyip Erdogan (born 1954).
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