Thursday, September 12, 2013

Erdogan is not Turkey’s only problem | Cyprus Mail

Erdogan is not Turkey’s only problem

By Dani Rodrik

TÜRKAN Saylan was a trailblazing physician, one of Turkey’s first female dermatologists and a leading campaigner against leprosy. She was also a staunch secularist who established a foundation to provide scholarships to young girls so they could attend school. In 2009, police raided her house and confiscated documents in an investigation that linked her to an alleged terrorist group, called “Ergenekon,” supposedly bent on destabilizing Turkey in order to precipitate a military coup.

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