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6 June 2010

Rethinking Islamism I: Turkey — friend or foe?

Never do we stop to ask precisely what we mean by Islamism.

By Sholto Byrnes

Turkey has been in the news after nine of its citizens were killed by Israeli armed forces on the Gaza flotilla, and will continue to be so, especially if its prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, sails to Gaza himself, as reports from Lebanon say he will.

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