One million Turks rally against government

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On Sunday, a huge crowd took to the streets of Istanbul, demanding a secular state. Last week, the Turkish armed forces had apparently issued a stern warning on their website, stating that they saw it as part of their mission to keep Turkey a secular. It will be interesting to see how the country will come out of this crisis, while the EU seems to be completely entangled in a dungeon of moral values: On one hand, it spoke out against military intervention in favor of the sitting pro Islamic government, on the other hand, Turkey as an Islamist state would render the southern borders of the EU an incalculable risk. Probably the EU should better be sitting on their hands, as dissatisfactory as this solution may seem, and let Turkey play it out internally.

Should early general elections be called, it seems not unlikely that an Algerian scenario could re enact itself in Turkey, leaving the rest of Europe in an interesting limbo vis à vis one of the continent's most dynamically developing neighbours.