Will Turkey become an Islamist state?

"Turkey, the world's prime example of a mainly Muslim country as a secular democratic state, may be losing that status. For the first time, a member of an Islamic party stands poised to win the presidency. And the upcoming parliamentary elections are likely to result in yet another victory for the Islamic-oriented government.

The ruling Justice and Development Party, led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has selected the party's No. 2 leader, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, as its candidate for the presidency. Secularists fear this may be the beginning of the end for the secular nature of the republic, as established by president Mustafa Kemal Ataturk more than 80 years ago.
While Turkey has twice had a prime minister from an Islamic party, the president is looked on as a bulwark of the secular system. The president plays an important role in Turkey. He appoints the prime minister, the military's chief of staff, university rectors, and members of the country's highest court.

The other institution safeguarding the status quo is the Turkish army, which has brought down governments on several occasions."

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The real problem here (as I have pointed out here) is not whether or wheter not a majority of the turks actually syphatizes with the islamists. A minority of the turks has woted in APK in to parliment- but they consists of atleast 34% of the people in Turkey. 34%! That is 14,5 million people- in Turkey alone, that wants to implement sharia law in the long run. And this is a country that is applying for membership in the EU!

The only thing hindering them from actually getting a membership, is if the military gives up their political role in Turkey. The very military that is the only thing that stands between a secular state and an islamistic theocratic governmented state. Talk about being between a rock and a hard place...

Turkey is only secular on the paper. And the paper their constitution is written on are thinner than muhammads conscience.

[Mumble, mumble- grrrrr!]

Read it all

Addendum: To make it even worse. Polls in England shows that an even bigger precentage of the muslim community there (37% of the 16-24 year old) wants to live in Britain under Sharia rather than English law. By tolerance and the PC ideology of multiculturalism (which must be the most racistic state agenda ever)- we are actually inviting and nursing intolerance- all in the name of socialistic state policy!