Turkey

Over 500,000 secularists protested in opposition to Islamist Abdullah Gul’s decision to run for president.Protesters carried banners saying “Sharia shall not rise to the Presidential Palace.” Turkey’s military has vowed to defend secularism.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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