Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Can democracy be protected by the court-ordered closing of a political party, and possibly even by a coup d'etat? If democracy is simply head-counting, as Hugh Fitzgerald puts it, then no, it cannot. But Turkey faces the possibility that its...
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Letters poured into my mailbox, some protesting what they considered a “shift” in my attitude regarding the closure case against the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP and of “opposing” a possible closure decision, while some hailed me for becoming a “lesser Kemalist” and “more democratic” as I “agreed” with the thesis of the AKP and some of its supporters in the Islamist and allegiant media...
