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
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