Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Bulent Aliriza, director of the CSIS Turkey Project, was quoted by Bloomberg, "Erdogan May Curb Islamist Ways After Court Victory."
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Bulent Aliriza, director of the CSIS Turkey Project, was quoted by Bloomberg, "Erdogan May Curb Islamist Ways After Court Victory."
After beating his army-backed secular opponents in court yesterday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan now may have to learn to live with them.
Erdogan's party escaped a ban when the country's high court rejected charges that he sought to introduce Islamic law in violation of a constitutional mandate for a secular government. The win gives Erdogan a chance to pursue democratic reforms and European Union membership. [...]
"Now Erdogan has to decide if he's going to behave," said Bulent Aliriza, head of the Turkey program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "There will be pressure from hardliners in his party to be firmer on the Islamist agenda." Read the article
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