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Ten years later, Turkey’s Islamist political revolution bearing bitter fruit

Michael Rubin
Resident Scholar, AEI

On Nov. 3, 2002, a political revolution swept Turkey. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party, better known by its Turkish acronym AKP, swept to power --- winning just 34 percent of the vote but, because of a quirk of Turkish election law, two-third of the seats in parliament. Not only could the AKP rule without coalition partners but, Turkish critics feared, the Islamist party could also use its supermajority to undercut the secular foundations of the Turkish state.

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What really motivated the embassy attacks?

11:36 PM 09/12/2012

The September 11 murder of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, a mob’s sacking of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, and the attack on the U.S. embassy in Cairo demonstrate the war against terrorism is far from over. Disturbingly, 11 years after al Qaida’s devastating attack on New York and Washington, neither the White House nor the State Department appears to recognize what the fight is about.

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