Monday, October 08, 2007

Storm Track Infiltration: Perhaps the Other Shoe Has Dropped in Turkey?

About a week or so ago, I wrote a post entitled Islamism and Turkey – The First Shoe Drops? In that post I wrote that ever since a party with deep Islamic roots has won a landslide victory in Turkey's elections we’ve wondered if the Islamists would try to re-establish a fundamentalist Islamic culture in Turkey’s secular society. It seems they have started when the Islamic-leaning prime minister called for lifting a ban on women wearing head scarves in universities.

Now, has the other shoe dropped?

Read the rest at The Gathering Storm.

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