US neo-con group blasts Erdoğan, AKP

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:11 AM EDT

Article Source: turkishdailynews.com.tr

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A group of U.S. neo-conservatives known for their earlier criticism of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused him and his ruling party of having a secret Islamist agenda and seeking to overthrow Turkey's secular regime.

But the U.S. State Department said Washington had full confidence in Turkey's democracy and that it would continue to work with the democratically-elected government.

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Dennis P. McCann

This is a first. I agree with the Neo-Cons.

But they are wrong on one small point. Erdogan's Islamist agenda is by no means secret. Ask anyone who lives here.