The inheritors of Kemal Ataturk’s secular republic appear not to be Istanbul’s urban elite or Turkey’s overbearing army, but rather the Islamist AKP. On Wednesday Turkey’s constitutional court, the highest in the land, ruled by a razor thin majority of six to five that the party of government, Justice and Development (the AKP) was not [...]
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Turkey: Ataturk’s unlikely heirs
Posted in Europe, International, Politics and News, tagged accession, AKP, constitution, constitutional court, court, democracy, EU, Europe, headscarves, International politics, Islam, Islamist, judgement, judges, Justice and Development, Kemal Ataturk, muslim, news, Politics, secular, secularism, Turkey on August 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Serbia: The capture of Karadzic
Posted in International, tagged accession, EU, EU membership, Europe, integretion, International politics, Kosovo, NATO, Politics, Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic, Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, Yugoslavia on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After 10 years in hiding, one of the world’s most wanted men will be brought to book. Will Serbia finally be able to put its tortured past behind it and look to the future? On Monday the 21st, the office of the Serbian president released a short and undetailed statement announcing “Radovan Karadzic [...]
