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5/19/2011: Hizmetophobia: A by-product of the Turkish Muslim Spring - Today's Zaman PDF Print

By Ali H. Aslan

http://www.todayszaman.com/columnist-244490-hizmetophobia-a-by-product-of-the-turkish-muslim-spring.html

 

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) recently issued its latest annual report with an embarrassingly long Turkey section. In addition to the problems of minority non-Muslims and Alevis, the commission has also alluded to those of majority Sunni Muslims in Turkey. But a useful term that would describe the main reason for their suffering was missing: Islamophobia.

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