Turkish Army and Secular Elite Remain Suspicious of Gul
September 2, 2007 7:06 am Nonviolent Islamist Movements, Turkey, Islamism beyond the ShibbolethsTurkey - Abdullah Gul - New York Times, September 2, 2007
Still, even if religion in public life is not on the table now, questions of power and class are. Mr. Gul, like many observant Muslims, is from Kayseri, a working-class city in Turkey’s heartland. The urban secularists who were in power for so long are used to thinking of themselves as the elite.