Turkey: Gingrich’s odd embrace of a secularist

The answer can only be that Gingrich favors secularism not for Christians but for Muslims, as a bulwark against what he sees as “creeping sharia,” said Mustafa Akyol at Hürriyet.

Mustafa Akyol

Hürriyet

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