Islam Besieges Turkey’s Secular Government As Nation Knocks At Door Of European Union

Islam Besieges Turkey’s Secular Government As Nation Knocks At Door Of European Union

A Muslim siege is re-born in Turkey. Since the founding of modern Turkey in 1923 by secular military officer Kemal Ataturk, there has been an ongoing battle between the military services and the forces of political Islam over how the nation shall be governed – by Sharia (Muslim law) or by secular democratic methods. The recent arrests of fifty senior Turkish military officers, charging twenty of them with a 2003 plot to overthrow the government, demonstrate that Islam and Sharia are alive and well in that nation. The implications for the freedom of Europe and The West are significant, as they were at the Battle of Vienna in 1683 Islam Besieges Turkey’s Secular Government As Nation Knocks At Door Of European Union