TURKEY ENTERS THE 21ST CENTURY - eric margolis
make minor and suitable changes and then read the following excerpt from eric's column. it will eerily remind you of another country?- t
The generals had good reason to be upset. An oligarchy made up of the military, its `secularist’ allies, and a shadowy `deep government’ of spooks has ruled Turkey for the last 84 years behind a façade of parliamentary government. This westernized elite includes officers, industrialists, judges, academics, media owners, bureaucrats, and the urban upper class which looks down on all expressions of Islam as anti-modern. Secularists have held power since modern Turkey was created in the 1920’s as a corporate state by army commander Mustafa Kemal, known as Ataturk, who detested religion and saw Islam as the principal reason for the backwardness of the former Ottoman Empire.
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The generals had good reason to be upset. An oligarchy made up of the military, its `secularist’ allies, and a shadowy `deep government’ of spooks has ruled Turkey for the last 84 years behind a façade of parliamentary government. This westernized elite includes officers, industrialists, judges, academics, media owners, bureaucrats, and the urban upper class which looks down on all expressions of Islam as anti-modern. Secularists have held power since modern Turkey was created in the 1920’s as a corporate state by army commander Mustafa Kemal, known as Ataturk, who detested religion and saw Islam as the principal reason for the backwardness of the former Ottoman Empire.
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posted by temporal at 9/09/2007
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