November 28, 2003

Secular Universities and a Moderate Islamist Government Clash in Turkey

By BURTON BOLLAG

Bitter disagreements over Turkey's higher-education policy -- among the strongly secular establishment, the moderate pro-Islamist government, left-wing students, Kurds, and others -- have boiled over into public protests, some of them violent, in recent weeks. In Ankara, the capital, at least 60 people were injured in early November as students demonstrating against tight state control over the universities clashed with riot police.

The protests marked the 22nd anniversary of the

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