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<title><![CDATA[Mustafa Akyol - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/30304.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Mustafa Akyol]]></description><category domain="30304">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How Erdogan Can Rule Turkey Till 2029]]></title>
							<link>http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/11/turkey-how-erdogan-can-rule-country-till-2029.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mustafa Akyol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The hottest political topic in Turkey these days is the major constitutional amendment the government is cooking up to introduce a &ldquo;presidential system.&rdquo; This, in fact, has been the grand ambition of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP)...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Was Behind the Coup Attempt in Turkey?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/opinion/who-was-behind-the-coup-attempt-in-turkey.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mustafa Akyol</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Turkey Fails to Understand About ISIS]]></title>
							<link>http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/07/turkey-isis-conspiracy-theories-ataturk-airport.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mustafa Akyol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the deadly attack June 28 on Istanbul Ataturk Airport, Turkey has become more alert about threats from the Islamic State (IS). Turkish police arrested more than 20 suspected IS members in a search for the group's secret cells; meanwhile, the Turkish military began hitting IS...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Erdogan Want His Own Islamic State?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/04/turkey-does-erdogan-aim-islamic-state.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mustafa Akyol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Parliament Speaker Ismail Kahraman unexpectedly sparked controversy in Turkey when on April 25 he declared that Turkey&rsquo;s new constitution should forgo mention of &ldquo;secularism&rdquo; and instead be a &ldquo;religious constitution&rdquo; referencing God. His words reignited...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Medieval Antidote to ISIS]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/21/opinion/a-medieval-antidote-to-isis.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mustafa Akyol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THE recent massacres in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., demonstrated, once again, the so-called Islamic State&rsquo;s ability to win over disaffected Muslims. Using a mixture of textual literalism and self-righteous certainty, the extremist group is able to persuade young men and women...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Erdogan Dominated The Turkish Election]]></title>
							<link>http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/11/turkey-elections-akp-unexpected-victory-erdogan.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mustafa Akyol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Turkey's Nov. 1 snap elections ended with a result that almost no one expected: a crushing, fourth consecutive victory for the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has now been in power since 2002. The party won 49.4% of the vote, a major increase over the 40.9% it won in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Letter Concerning Muslim Toleration]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/18/opinion/mustafa-akyol-a-letter-concerning-muslim-toleration.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mustafa Akyol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL &mdash; Over the past decade, headlines from the Middle East have reintroduced Westerners to terms from centuries past. &ldquo;Heresy,&rdquo; &ldquo;blasphemy,&rdquo; &ldquo;apostasy&rdquo; &mdash; these are some of the charges that the radical Salafist group known as the...]]></description>
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