Fitzgerald: Turkey: Kemalism on the ropes

Make no mistake; there is a program by those who want more and more Islam. Its proponents are patient: look at the statements about waiting for the right moment by the sweet-reasonably sinister Mr. Gulen, waiting in his Washington-area exile, for the results of the election.

The example of Turkey now also shows that Islam keeps coming back, and back. It is back despite the decades of nearly all-out war by Ataturk, despite his successor Inonu, despite the 80 years in which secularism has developed in Turkey ...

It was Erdogan, after all, who said that the "minarets are our bayonets" and "the mosques our barracks" just a few years ago. He is smoother now -- but there is no evidence that either he, or his followers, have changed.