Word: secularizing
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...power to veto legislation, and is also considered an important symbol of the Turkish state. That's why the nomination for President this week by Turkey's ruling party of the country's Foreign Minister, Abdullah Gul, has reopened fierce debates about the place of Islam in the ferociously secular Turkish state...
...political party that has dominated Turkey's parliament for the past five years. But like most senior officials of his Justice and Development Party, or AKP, his roots are in an Islamic grouping that was banned in Turkey in the 1990s. His Arabic is better than his English, as secular Turks like to point out. And his wife wears a traditional Islamic headscarf. (In fact, she petitioned the European Court of Human Rights to declare unconstitutional Turkey's law banning headscarves in public buildings, although she later dropped the case.) If her husband is confirmed, Mrs. Gul would...
...former party from government.) The AKP has so far been reluctant to introduce any changes that might provoke the wrath of the generals. At a rare press conference prior to this week's nomination of Gul, the hawkish army chief Yasar Buyukanit warned that a Turkish President must have secular values, "not only in words, but in essence...
...Harvard, others have joined Baehr in his decision to promote virginity as something to be prized. The TRL founders, Sarah M. Kinsella ’07 and Justin S. Murray ’07, who are dating and both Catholic, say they hoped their non-secular group could provide a place where abstinence was accepted...
Amanda L. Shapiro ’08, the president of the Harvard Secular Society, also expresses concern about the TLR’s focus on marriage, as opposed to “true love...