Turkey succeeded in building « own model », says scholar 29 octobre 2012
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Hurriyet Daily News (Turkey) Monday, October 29, 2012, p. 6
Barçın Yinanç, Istanbul
As Turkey celebrates the 89th anniversary of the republic, a historian says Turkey is one of the few states in the Islamic world that comes close to the concept of a contemporary republic. ‘Turkey built its own model,’ says İlber Ortaylı, adding that Turkey’s recipe of secularism and modernity is attractive in the Middle East. (suite…)