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Turkey: Between Atatürk’s Secularism and Fundamentalist Islam

Turkey: Between Atatürk’s Secularism and Fundamentalist Islam

May 9, 2010 | Harold Rhode
Today there is an internal battle among Turkish Muslims between forces that want to be part of the Western world and those that want to return Turkey's political identity to be based primarily on Islamic solidarity. But it isn't Ottoman Islam that these Islamist Turks seek to revive. Their Islam is more in tune with the fanatically anti-Western principles of Saudi Wahhabi Islam.