"The Agony of the Kemalist Republic and the Rise of a Fascist-Naqshibendi Brotherhood presents, in vivid terms, the slow undoing of all the reforms introduced by the immortal Kemal Atatèurk, founder of modern Turkish Republic. Today Turkey is facing a most daunting challenge mounted by a corrupt religious party usurping the police powers at its disposal and aiming to reverse the course of the past eighty years. A sham democracy cannot solve Turkey's critical problems: in the east, a tribal and feudal society within which abject poverty reigns and in the west, powerful conglomerates with international partnerships dominate the business world. Everywhere an army of unemployed, young and old, is hoping for better days ... Against great odds the fight for secular education, for full employment, for women empowerment, and for social justice has to go on."