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Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: February 26
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