The reliable Mustafa Akyol reminds Americans that Turkey is facing a constitutional crisis because of misplaced secularism, or, as he calls it, "secular extremism." If courts depose the current, democratically elected government--with the military standing behind the courts--Turkey will be damaged in its international dealings, its economy, its democracy (certainly) and in other ways that can't even be calculated yet.
It is the kind of issue that Americans are ignoring during the long sleep of the 2008 election campaign.
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