Turkey

Submitted by Philippe (United States), Jan 21, 2011 at 18:44

I believe that in the case of Turkey, demographics played a role. You have there a very westernized part of the population in the large cities that mostly reject the islamists. But the growing majority, rural and uneducated by essence is what brought the islamists to power. I don't believe that it is the case in Tunisia (I may be wrong).

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