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Ever since the AKP (Justice and Development Party) party swept the parliamentary polls in Turkey and also managed to get their own man elected as president, we had been expecting a clash between the moderate Muslim party and the hardline secularists in the country. The fear of a major clash has come to pass. The [...]

Turkey is being pulled in two opposite directions. The ruling AKP wants it go on to become a liberal Islamic country. The powerful army, judiciary and bureaucracy wants that Turkey continues following the path shown by Kemal Ataturk. They distrust the AKP and feel its leaders want to turn Turkey into an orthodox Muslim nation. [...]

Turkey is going through turbulent times. The Kemalists are trying to get rid of the liberal Islamist AKP through the courts. The AKP has struck back by arresting two generals for allegedly leading an armed gang that wanted to destabilize society through killings thus paving the way for military intervention. The words of Ataturk Kemal [...]