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Zaman Weekly, a publication which was recently launched in the US by the same media group as Today’s Zaman, was presented with an award at the 4th Traditional Friendship Dinner hosted by the Turkish Cultural Center (TCC) and the Assembly of Turkish-American Associations in New York on Thursday.
Zaman Editor-in-Chief Ekrem Dumanlı accepted the award, which was presented by the guest of honor, Turkish Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Şahin, in recognition of the new English-language publication launched with the objective of improving Turkish-American relations.
Some of New York’s most influential politicians, including Democratic Senators Robert Casey and Kirsten Gillibrand also attended the event at Cipriani, one of New York’s most elegant restaurants.
March 26, 2011
March 22, 2011
Are secularists and Islamists struggling in Turkey?
Ahmet T. Kuru*
In the last decade Turkey has experienced a rapid process of transformation in terms of its political and socio-economic systems.
Some pundits in the Western media, and even some academics, have defined recent political debates in Turkey as the mere reflection of a struggle between two forces: the declining secularists, including the military, and the rising Islamists, especially the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the Gülen movement. One example of this point of view is a recent report from the American think tank Stratfor titled “Islam, Secularism and the Battle for Turkey’s Future.” There are three main problems with depicting contemporary Turkish politics as a clash between the secularist military and the Islamist AK Party and Gülen movement.
In the last decade Turkey has experienced a rapid process of transformation in terms of its political and socio-economic systems.
Some pundits in the Western media, and even some academics, have defined recent political debates in Turkey as the mere reflection of a struggle between two forces: the declining secularists, including the military, and the rising Islamists, especially the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the Gülen movement. One example of this point of view is a recent report from the American think tank Stratfor titled “Islam, Secularism and the Battle for Turkey’s Future.” There are three main problems with depicting contemporary Turkish politics as a clash between the secularist military and the Islamist AK Party and Gülen movement.
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