Secular, religious groups face off in Turkey

Monday, April 30, 2007

ISTANBUL, Turkey -- The possibility of an observant Muslim president is pitting Turkey's deeply secular military and civilian establishment against its religiously oriented ruling party in a fundamental struggle over national identity.

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