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Church and state in Istanbul.
By Mustafa Akyol
“Christian missionaries infiltrating our country! Islam is slipping out of our hands!” These words represent the epitome of a very hot debate in Turkey in recent weeks. What made them more surprising than ever was that they belonged not to a conservative Muslim, but to Rahsan Ecevit — the influential wife of Bulent Ecevit, Turkey’s former prime minister and long-time guru of left-wing, secularist ideology. Nobody had heard Mrs. Ecevit worrying about the future of Islam before; instead, she used to speak about the “threat” of it. . .
nationalreview.com/comment/akyol200503040739.asp
By Mustafa Akyol
“Christian missionaries infiltrating our country! Islam is slipping out of our hands!” These words represent the epitome of a very hot debate in Turkey in recent weeks. What made them more surprising than ever was that they belonged not to a conservative Muslim, but to Rahsan Ecevit — the influential wife of Bulent Ecevit, Turkey’s former prime minister and long-time guru of left-wing, secularist ideology. Nobody had heard Mrs. Ecevit worrying about the future of Islam before; instead, she used to speak about the “threat” of it. . .
nationalreview.com/comment/akyol200503040739.asp