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Originally Posted by Divemaster
Turkish military is saying they are fulfilling their constitutional obligation to keep Islam out of the government.
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John Bolton just mentioned this on Fox:
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...from the moment he pronounced himself the ''imam'' of Istanbul, Erdogan began both provoking anxieties and recoiling from the fact that he had provoked them. He banned alcohol from municipal establishments, which created concern that he would eliminate alcohol from restaurants too. But he never did. He revived an elaborate project for a mosque complex in the city's heart, then backed off when there were protests. He never clearly allayed secular concerns, keeping them alive instead with comments like: ''Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.''
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/ma...pagewanted=all
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Pat
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