One of the “six arrows” of Kemalist ideology was the stringently areligious civic life the French call laïcité. If anything Turkey’s version outdid that of France, particularly in its anti-clericalism ...

The freedom of press is under control, the judiciary is under control and there is no more separation of powers, which is the ...

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