Turkey's Jewish Islamists


	Turkey's Jewish Islamists

MomLes

10-5-2007 11:14 AM

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turkey, fascism, secularism, islam, politics

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Some surprising background on the fascist roots of Turkey's secular Kemalists.

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What is most striking in this nationwide division is that the so-called Islamists are generally on the liberal pro-Western side, while the secularists are often on the other.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/04/AR2007100401357.html?hpid=opinionsbox1">
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