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TURKEY Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey, by M. Hakan Yavuz. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi + 281 pages. Bibl. to p. 294. Index to p. 301. $90 cloth; $32.99 paper. Reviewed by Michael M. Gunter

In November 2002 Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP, or Justice and Development Party), a party with roots in Islamic politics, swept to power in Turkey, a state renowned as secular by virtue of its founder, Kemal Ataturk, and his institutionalized Kemalist ideology. This great AKP victory was then solidified over determined military and Kemalist opposition in an even greater electoral victory in July 2007. How did all this happen and ...

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