Turkish Islamists Wipe Out Their Secular Opponents.

Recep "Democracy is the Bus to Islam" Erdegon, the Fundamentalist leader of Turkey's ruling AK party is rounding up all prominent secularists accusing them of being part of a plot to overthrow his government. This so called Ergenekon conspiracy has already seen 142 secularists charged. Yesterday another 8 were added to the sweep. The latest haul includes Mehmet Haberal, owner of the secular TV station Kanal B and rector of Baskent University Ankara, two other rectors and a clutch of prominent journalists. A neat way of destroying your political opponents. It is probably no co-incidence that Haberal had begun last week to form a new secular political movement to fight Erdogan and his bigots.