> And I'll bet that a lot of those 300,000 wouldn't prefer such a
> dictatorship either - they're just afraid of Islamists.
I think that's outlandish nonsense. The Islamists in Turkey aren't actually threatening anyone: the army are, however. At the moment, they are actively repressing Turkey's Kurdish minority and threatening to invade northern Iraq to extend the campaign. In concert with the EU and America, they have also launched a wave of recent kidnappings across Europe. Somehow I doubt that their main concern is the preservation of the Republic.