Defending a Secular Turkey - But What Kind?
by Tulin Daloglu, The Daily Star, Lebanon - The headscarf debate is not the most important trouble Turkey has, growing political Islam is. Turkey's secular and liberal elites do not want to face the fact that they have actually failed to create a contemporary Islam that would have incapacitated political Islamists long ago, or to raise their society from the bottom up with education, an improved economy and social standards. The outcome of this experiment will affect opinions throughout the Middle East, and hopefully there will be voices supporting a secular Turkey.

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