On the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of the Turkish mountains covered with forests, there is an ancient “city of the sun” – picturesque Fethiye. From a bird’s eye view, the resort looks like a postcard – a long, uninterrupted strip of beaches, turquoise lagoons and yachts parked along the coast. This…
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The Short-lived Islamist Government in Turkey
According to Allcitycodes, the victory of the Islamist Welfare Party in the early general elections in December 1995 marked a major shift in modern Turkey’s politics. Despite the fact that the secular right-wing groups (ANAP and DYP) formed a coalition government in March 1996 in order to prevent the Islamists from entering the country’s executive, finally, in June of that year,…