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Article: Focus On Turkey & Energy Options.
- Article from:
- APS Diplomat News Service
- Article date:
- September 15, 2008
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Turkey has re-emerged as a stable power at the edge of Europe and Asia after months of struggle between a powerful and mainly urban segment of society which upholds a secular ideology established by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk upon the collapse of the Ottoman empire following World War-1 and the ruling Islamist AKP whose opponents suspect of trying to revive the Sunni caliphate. This ideology is known as Kemalism (see news1-TurkeyAzerIranJuly1-08).
The feud ended with the Constitution Court (one of the Kemalist strongholds) decided not to ban the AKP. But tensions remain as the Kemalists keep watching every move by AKP leader and PM Erdogan and his ally President ...