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The Turkish Strategic Challenge After the July Elections

August 9, 2007 | Ariel Cohen

Turkey’s secular system will continue to be challenged as the Islamic Justice and Development Party (the AKP) gradually pulls Islamic values further into public life. Anti-Americanism has become rampant. Anti-Israel feelings are also pervasive, and after terrorist attacks against two Istanbul synagogues and anti-Semitic articles in the media, many Turkish Jews live in fear.

Michelle Mazel on La tentation obscurantiste: Essai

October 1, 2006 | Michelle Mazel

A Timely Warning La tentation obscurantiste: Essai (The Temptation of Obscurantism: An Essay), by Caroline Fourest, Grasset, 2005, 167 pp. [in French] Reviewed by Michelle Mazel

Turkey Between Secularism and Islamism

February 16, 1997 | Dr. Jacob M. Landau

When Mustafa Kamal (Ataturk) founded the Republic of Turkey in 1923 (he was its president until his death fifteen years later), he set as his main objective the modernization of the new republic. His preferred means was speedy, intensive secularization and, indeed, every one of his reforms was tied up with disestablishing other Islamic institutions from their hold on Turkey's politics, economics, society, and cultural life.

Turkey Between Secularism and Islamism

February 16, 1997 | Dr. Jacob M. Landau

Modernity Exhausted

October 1, 1993