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SPRING 2007
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
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Turkish Crisis: The Biggest Test Since 9/11
The Two Souls of Turkey
The Limits of Democracy, or "Seizure of the State From Within" Ali Bayramoglu
The Two Souls of Turkey Orhan Pamuk
Autocracy vs. Democracy Yusuf Muftuoglu
Turkey's Admission to Europe Would Defeat Jihadists Joschka Fischer
Don't Disarm Secularism Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Turkey: Not About Islamic vs. Western Values Amartya Sen
A Union of Civilizations RECEP Tayyip Erdogan
Turkey Is No Model for Muslims Mohamad Mahathir
The Third Wave: Muslim Migration to Europe Bernard Lewis
It might begin with banning bikini billboards in Istanbul or separating boys and girls at the public swimming pool, advance to criminalizing adultery or banning short skirts and alcohol and one day lead to the establishment of a full-fledged 21st century caliphate, with women the biggest losers.
How the Turkish crisis is settled, and the impact it has on the rest of the Muslim world, if any, is the biggest test of relations between Islam and the West since 9/11. God willing, secularism will survive democracy in Turkey and Muslims elsewhere will realize the value of both ....
The encounters have pushed moderate, secular people toward democratization and strict religious people toward secularization; however, some critical moments—whether proposed legislation to criminalize adultery or the right to headscarves—bring conflicts into the foreground. As the social periphery grows stronger and threatens to occupy the center, the conflicts are intensified ...
The continued existence of Islamic groups and their refusal to perceive Islam as the state prescribes—that is, to be tamed—is a serious failure of the modern Turkish idea. As long as these "dangerous and untamed" social groups continue to grow strong and amass political power through legitimate means, the military and state will be progressively disempowered.
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