republic. The revolt was crushed with brutality, only to lay ground for the future revolts. In the first 15 years of the republic, the very era of Atatiirk's one-man rule, hardly a year went by without conflict in the southeast of the country. The revolt in Dersim in 1937, the last Kurdish revolt of th

ernment. Ominously, the Constitutional Court started proceedings to shut down the AKP, because its religious outlook was allegedly in violation of Atatiirk's constitution. But 2007 was not 1960. It wasn't just that the AKP had deeper social networks, especially in municipalities run by its EFTA_R1_000