Monday, April 30, 2007
Another Reason to Like Turkey
I wish this would happen south of the 49th.
Police said more than 1 million people rallied in Istanbul on Sunday in defence of Turkey's secular system and against the military's threat of intervention amid a political crisis over presidential elections.
"Turkey is secular and will stay that way," chanted the protestors, who carried Turkish flags and portraits of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
"We want neither Sharia, nor a coup, but a fully democratic Turkey," they said.
The crowd also called for the resignation of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamist-rooted government which many accuse of raising tensions over presidential elections.
