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File photo—Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addresses members of parliament from his ruling Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) on October 8, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/ADEM ALTAN)

Opinion: End of the Erdoğan-Gülen Partnership?

by Samir Salha | Dec 5, 2013 | Opinion

Turkey’s left-wing Taraf newspaper has not finished leaking secret documents capable of inciting crises, bringing down political coalitions, and launching new areas of friction between politicians and military officials in Turkey. The newspaper had initially led to...

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Armagan Yilmaz, center, holds his infant daughter as he speaks to the crowd of approximately 130 people assembled in Saylorsburg, Pa. on Saturday, July 13, 2013 to demonstrate against Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, who lives in town. (AP Photo/Pocono Record, Keith R. Stevenson)

The Best of Enemies

by Nicholas Birch | Sep 6, 2013 | Majalla Blogs

In politics, the pursuit of power always wins out over ideological affinity. That seems to be the moral behind the latest round of tensions between Turkey’s two most powerful Islamic groups—the government itself and the Fethullah Gülen Movement—tensions that...