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Turkish referendum: Neo-Ottomans victorious

By Alliance Alert

Srdja Trifkovic writing at Chronicles: "Over the past eight years, Prime Minister Rejep Tayyip Erdo?an?s Islamist government and his AKP (Justice and Development Party) have been successful in undermining Mustafa Kemal?s legacy and the character of the state founded upon that legacy. What remained, until last Sunday?s referendum, was an increasingly empty shell of constitutional secularism . . . [O]n September 12 . . . Turkey?s voters approved, by a large margin, a 26-article package which will end the Army?s role as the guardian of secularism. On current form, there is but little doubt that Erdo?an will be reelected with a simple majority when he calls the general election next spring."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 17, 2010 (boomark / email).