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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/05/opinion/05OZEL.html
Islam Takes a Democratic Turn in Turkey
(New York Times) Soli Ozel - An electoral earthquake shook Turkey's politics to its foundations on Sunday and all but eliminated its complacent and exhausted ruling elites. The Justice and Development Party - the third and least Islamist in a sequence of Islamist political parties - led with a third of the votes. Yet these elections were not about Islam or whether Turkey would turn its back on modernization and secularism. These elections were the eruption of popular wrath against established parties.