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Russia calls a halt

August 12, 2008 - 4:11 am - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-08-12 12:03:51

“Why is everyone so concerned about Turkey going Islamic? If history is any indication, the Islamic rule will be speedily deposed by the Turkish military, who have been on the vanguard of secularism since Ataturk.”

neolex: at least per a recent Spengler piece, many of the key secularist (and anti-Islamist) pillars in the Turkish military have been ousted under recent (and presumably trumped-up) charges of an “al Qaeda plot”.