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Turkish government attacks secularism

For decades since Ataturk’s brutal reforms, Turkey’s military guaranteed its secular character. The army repeatedly toppled the governments suspected of Islamic leanings. In the unusual shift of power, the Islamist government arrested two generals who organized earlier massive protests against Turkey’s Islamization.
As backward villagers stream into cities, Turkish society becomes increasingly Islamist.


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