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This Week, Turkey Went a Long Way Toward Becoming an Islamic Republic
by Barry Rubin https://www.legal-project.org/2651/this-week-turkey-went-a-long-way-toward-becoming Excerpt: Hardly surprising, deeply upsetting, and geostrategically catastrophic, it's official. Turkey has now passed over towards being an Islamist state. That turning point is marked by a tiny event of gigantic importance. Fazil Say is an internationally acclaimed Turkish classical pianist. He has performed with prestigious symphony orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Berlin, Israel Philharmonic, France, and Tokyo, and is a European Union cultural ambassador. The Turkish state is now going to put him on trial, as an Istanbul court has accepted the prosecutor's charge, which amounts to heresy. Specifically: he is accused of insulting Islam because of tweets he sent. Read the complete original version of this item... Related Topics: Blasphemy in the Muslim World receive the latest by email: subscribe to the legal project's free mailing list Note: The content of external articles does not necessarily reflect the views of The Legal Project. |
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