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The ruling party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a broad victory in national parliamentary elections on Sunday, taking nearly half of the total vote in what became a referendum on the future of Turkish democracy.

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ret25usn1 year, 1 month ago

I am not sure what to make of this. I believe we will need excellent statesmanship to keep Turkey as a friend. I hope we have a good statesman somewhere.
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NelsonR1 year, 1 month ago

Bush has extreme capabilities anytime while dealing with Islamic issues. Make him Ambassador to Turkey when his term runs out. This will go over very pleasantly with the average Turkish citizen.
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Bemuzed1 year, 1 month ago

I have nothing against Islam just I have nothing against Christianity, but don't force me to conform. The beauty of Islam when it was expanding from the Deserts of Arabia to the rest of the world is that they weren't brutal conquerers and they didn't force the people they conquered to convert. Islam was one of the most peaceful expansions this world had ever seen but you wouldn't know it by the corruption of the faith now.
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NoSpinDave1 year, 1 month ago

"Western people have also got to disassociate themselves from inherited prejudices about Islam"
I would say the exact same thing holds true of the Islamic world towards the west. It cuts BOTH ways my friend.
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sixshot1 year, 1 month ago

i see dangerous times ahead for turkey if islam gets out of control like it does in pakistan
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joeblowe1 year, 1 month ago

One again, PROBLEMS caused by a damned RELIGION! I'll paraphrase: the only good religion is a DEAD religion.
I just wish that some alien ship would finally land here, EXPLAIN everything, and then MAYBE we could get rid of all these knuckleheaded religions with their invisible, bi-polar "friends".
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  GHOSTWHOWALKS1 year, 1 month ago
  
  The problem isn't religion itself, but with those who are so blinded by rhetoric they cannot see the good in every religion, or accept another's faith different than their own.
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    joeblowe1 year, 1 month ago
    
    As far as I can find, and I've looked for a long while, there is no good in religion. None. At least none that can't be found or had WITHOUT the religion and the attendant invisible friend. Sure, sure, studies show that people with religious beliefs are less stressed, etc. Sure -- why wouldn't they be? They have a big, strong, invisible bi-polar friend they can either A) BLAME all their problems on or B) BEG for help and then relax believing that help will actually be forthcoming. Sometimes I'm tempted to invent an invisible friend to take some of the load off of me too. But really -- I do NOT think this is "good" - in fact quite the contrary.
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aceofspades11 year, 1 month ago

Turkey is a secular nation, the gov't while being led by fundamentalists, much like GW's cabal, still is maintaining that secularism in most forms because the army is virtually an independent entity there & will enforce the status quo.
Turkey also has a growing economy & has a strong desire to become a full partner in the EU - I doubt the EU would be happy with an Islamic fundamentalist gov't. in it's midst
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