Mending Fences in Turkey
August 7th, 2008 by Adam
An editorial in the Christian Science Monitor suggests now that the AKP has escaped being banned it must reach out to secularists in order to stabilize Turkey’s polarized political system. The editorial says that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan must follow the court’s warning to not push his party’s religious agenda to tamp down tensions between Islamic and secular forces. However, the most important initiative the AKP could undertake would be to refocus on EU accession talks, which would be a powerful reforming tool.
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