{"id":1557,"date":"2002-08-01T01:12:40","date_gmt":"2002-08-01T06:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2002-08-01T01:12:40","modified_gmt":"2002-08-01T06:12:40","slug":"dont_tell_anyone_islamic_party_could_win_in_turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/08\/dont_tell_anyone_islamic_party_could_win_in_turkey\/","title":{"rendered":": Don&#8217;t Tell Anyone: Islamic Party Could Win in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The last time an openly Islamic government won elections in Turkey, it was abruptly ended in a bloodless military coup.  Now \u2013 if you believe the word on the street \u2013 the AK party, which bills itself as \u201cconservative democratic\u201d but is widely perceived as being Islamic \u2013 is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Fchi-0207310304jul31.story%3Fcoll%3Dchi-newsnationworld-hed\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">poised to win<\/a> upcoming elections.  Turkey\u2019s political scene has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com%2Fheadlines_comments.php%3Fid%3D596_0_24_0_C\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">turbulent<\/a> lately, and the fast-rising AK Party has taken advantage of the situation to reach 30% approval in the polls, with 54% still undecided.  The US has <a href=\"http:\/\/europe.cnn.com%2F2002%2FWORLD%2Feurope%2F07%2F29%2Fturkey.elections%2Findex.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">expressed concern<\/a> about the resurgence of political Islam in NATO-member Turkey, one of its staunchest Muslim allies in the war on terrorism.  If the AK does win, you can be sure that it will tiptoe around the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com%2Farticles%2F65976.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">powerful military<\/a> in hopes of avoiding a repeat of the 1997 coup.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A political party widely regarded as Islamic in its roots (although their leadership denies it) is poised to win Turkish parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>: Don&#8217;t Tell Anyone: Islamic Party Could Win in Turkey<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A political party widely regarded as Islamic in its roots (although their leadership denies it) is poised to win Turkish parliamentary elections.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/08\/dont_tell_anyone_islamic_party_could_win_in_turkey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\": Don&#8217;t Tell Anyone: Islamic Party Could Win in Turkey\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A political party widely regarded as Islamic in its roots (although their leadership denies it) is poised to win Turkish parliamentary elections.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/08\/dont_tell_anyone_islamic_party_could_win_in_turkey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"altmuslim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2002-08-01T06:12:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shahed Amanullah\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shahed Amanullah\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/08\/dont_tell_anyone_islamic_party_could_win_in_turkey\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/08\/dont_tell_anyone_islamic_party_could_win_in_turkey\/\",\"name\":\": Don&#8217;t Tell Anyone: Islamic Party Could Win in Turkey\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2002-08-01T06:12:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2002-08-01T06:12:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#\/schema\/person\/0e0efbb645cc461c721083358f82f945\"},\"description\":\"A political party widely regarded as Islamic in its roots (although their leadership denies it) is poised to win Turkish parliamentary elections.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/08\/dont_tell_anyone_islamic_party_could_win_in_turkey\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/08\/dont_tell_anyone_islamic_party_could_win_in_turkey\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/08\/dont_tell_anyone_islamic_party_could_win_in_turkey\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\": Don&#8217;t Tell Anyone: Islamic Party Could Win in Turkey\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\",\"name\":\"altmuslim\",\"description\":\"Global perspectives on Muslim life, politics &amp; 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