"Three sets of processes, each in the making for some time, have converged to result in the violence of the last few days in Istanbul and other major Turkish cities. The volatile consequencesof these processes have perhaps posed the most serious challenge to the once-unchallenged tenure in office of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The first development, by far the most profoundly unsettling for large swathes of Turkish society, has been a culture war of sorts being waged between the country’s rabid secularists on the one side and an expansive and increasingly confident religious segment on the other."
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