Is Turkey Facing an "Islamist" Future?
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With the election of its first president with Islamist roots, the country enters a new era. Just what that era will bring is the question
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Turkey's Alevi Muslims have been branded "pagans" for their musical ceremonies and liberal customs but Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is seeking their votes as his party reaches out beyond its devout Sunni Muslim base.
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Comment is free: Turkey's election may point the way to further democratisation, but the army means to block it.
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Turkey is navigating a treacherous path between the forces that want to pull it closer toward Islam and the institutions that safeguard its secularism.
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BIG TURKEY: Turkey has about 70 million people &#151; nearly all Muslim &#151; which would make it among the most populous members of the current European Union. But its birthrate outpaces most current EU members and could surpass heavyweight Germany by the time Turkey joins.
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ALANYA, Turkey -- Vacationing just a few miles apart on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, two Turkish professionals could hardly have more divergent views on a nationwide vote today that is expected to return the ruling party to power -- and intensify an ongoing battle over the role of Islam in public life.
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Turkey has always shown two faces: One, confidently pointing toward Europe, is wealthy, urban, and secular; another, gazing eastward, is poor, rural, and devoutly Muslim.
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The AKP sweep has implications for the country's drift from secularism, the military's role and the future of relations with Iraq.
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ISTANBUL, Feb 4 (IPS) - Turkey's Islamic-rooted governing party is  moving ahead with hotly contested constitutional amendments that  would lift the ban on headscarves at universities. Opponents see  it as a danger-laden step undermining the currently rigid secular  regime by introducing Islamic principles that may extend far  beyond higher learning.
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How will a stand against violence play in the Muslim world?.
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Multiculturalism is stirring a bitter public debate about national identity in Turkey.
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Turkey's ruling party is likely to win a majority of seats in parliamentary elections Sunday that will highlight the deepening divide between the Islamic-oriented government and opponents who fear religion is encroaching on secular traditions.
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ISTANBUL, Jul 25 (IPS) - Turkey has a powerful military with no qualms about  direct or other forms of intervention in politics in the name of  its constitutional powers -- safeguarding a secular republic from  both external and internal threats. But now, while still held in  high esteem by the populace, its continued role in politics is  being questioned.
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Turkey&#39;s moment of truth is fast approaching. On Oct. 6, the European Commission is due to publish its report on whether Turkey is ready to start negotiations for membership of the European Union.
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TURKEY&#39;S 40-year campaign to join the European Union is on the verge of collapse after its Islamist Government scrapped a package of reforms aimed at stamping out &quot;honour killings&quot; and torture.
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BERLIN: Turkey's bid to become the first predominantly Muslim country to gain membership of the European Union has sparked a wider debate about integrating immigrants into European countries.
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ISTANBUL -- Turkish voters handed the Islamist-influenced ruling party a decisive victory in parliamentary elections yesterday, rewarding it for stewardship of Turkey's robust economy but raising the specter of new disputes over the feared erosion of the country's secular traditions.