To progress, Turkey must get back to ‘normal’
By Andrew Finkel
At a political retreat outside Ankara this month, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, reassured his Justice and Development (AK) party faithful that his government remained on a reformist track.
He dismissed suggestions that allowing women MPs to wear religious headscarves in parliament – a keystone of his “democratisation package” unveiled on September 30 – was an attempt to polarise the electorate or to value the beliefs of his own religiously conservative supporters at the expense of the rest of society.
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