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TALKING TURKEY: The Islamist Agenda in Turkey; Democracy
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TALKING TURKEY: The Islamist Agenda in Turkey; Democracy
When Islamic leader Necmettin Erbakan surged to power in Turkey in June 1996, it was on a platform of Islamic-based, anti-Western populism for a new "Just Order" and rapprochement with the rest of the Muslim world. As prime minister for less than a year, Erbakan, 71, made no basic changes in Turkey's secular, pro-Western policies but nevertheless alarmed the country's disparate secular forces.
Today, with their leader forced out of office and banned from politics, his Refah (Welfare) Party closed and the drive against suspected Islamic extremists continuing, Turkish Islamists have reorganized themselves in a …
