Turkey's Military as Self-Appointed Guardians of Secularism

Turkey's Military as Self-Appointed Guardians of Secularism

In Turkey, no office, restaurant or public square is complete without a photograph or statue of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The founder of the republic thus still seems omnipresent. Many of those who accuse the country's democratically-elected government of gradual Islamisation refer to him, includi...

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Veröffentlicht in:E+Z, Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit, 2008-10, Vol.49 (10), p.368-370
1. Verfasser: Topcu, Canan
Format: Magazinearticle
Sprache:ger
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Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal, 1881-1938
Democracy
Islam
Secularism
Turkey
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Zusammenfassung:In Turkey, no office, restaurant or public square is complete without a photograph or statue of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The founder of the republic thus still seems omnipresent. Many of those who accuse the country's democratically-elected government of gradual Islamisation refer to him, including the military commanders. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0721-2178