Insight Turkey
Insight Turkey
Challenging ideas
On Turkish politics and International affairs

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Joseph Hammond

Joseph Hammond
The Rise of Islamic Capitalism: Why the New Muslim Middle Class is the Key to Defeating Extremism
January 1, 2012
On November 30, 2006, Catholic Pope Benedict XVI made a historic visit to the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul. The Pope’s historic visit to what tourists call the “Blue Mosque" was designed to symbolically ameliorate tensions caused by the Pope’s controversial speech a few weeks prior in Germany.

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