Friday, August 23, 2013

Al Jazeera's fluctuating fortunes | ummid.com

Al Jazeera's fluctuating fortunes | ummid.com
It was during this period that the Muslim Brotherhood grew exponentially in Egypt; Nekmetin Arbakan's Islamist Refah party came to power in Turkey. The Kemalist army snuffed him out, just as the Egyptian army has snuffed out Mohamed Morsi. Teyyep Erdogan and Abdullah Gul are Arbakan's spiritual descendents but packaged for a secular, Kemalist constitution. On them later.