Telegraph: Turkey's militant Muslims should worry West - by Con Coughlin
Turkey's militant Muslims should worry West - by Con Coughlin
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the father of modern Turkey, was no friend of Islam. Late at night, and in his cups, Turkey's iconic leader would often refer to the nation's Islamic past as "a necklace of corpses" that defiled the new state he was trying to create from the ruins of the Ottoman empire.
The 15 years he governed the country is most remembered for the almost obsessive purge he undertook of the country's Muslim identity as he sought to create a society more attuned to the ways of modern Europe.
Note EU-Digest: Europe must not allow Turkey to slide back into its past and support the forces that want to protect the legacy of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Labels: Muslims, Secularism, Turkey
