Europe is secular for 300 years and today no country want to demolish secularist system ın Europe..But Turkey ıs secular for only 85 years..and Turkey ıs alone ın Islam World.because it is the only secular-democrat country which has %99 muslims.so that Ataturk's army,universities,judges must save it

berkin, İzmir, Turkey

You can never have democracy without laicism.

Ergenekon is popycock!

Alan, Herts,

Secularity is the state of being separate from religion. It is NOT the state of being Western. I cannot imagine a non-Muslim Turkey. Those who speak of the "darkness" of Islam surely know nothing about the history of the Islamic Empire where knowledge flourished while Europe lingered in the dark age

Gerald Wilson, Camptonville, USA

Most o fthe arguments here are spurious and misleading. either you want a civilised society or one based on a religion that denies basic freedom and protection and carries out murder, torture and rape of men, women and children in neighbouring countries. Which will you choose?

andy, london,

Turkey wants to be a democratic country.But some anti-islamist and also anti-democratic groups want to continue the controlling of country in their hands forever. To reach their aim they have always devised to overthrow democratic goverments that rule since 1950.

gabriel, İzmir, Turkey

The secular extremist having taking a foot hold in Turkish life for decades and now its time for the Islamic moderates to bring change, which is evidently happening such as reform, freedom, high economic profits, EU agenda, etc.

I ask god to guide the elite to the right path (Islam)

anas makhtom, kufa,

So its allright for muslims to have a bloodless coup but not for any one to resist it?

They may want wemon to wear head scarfs in school now but how long before they ban woman from going to school once it goes muslim?

Secular is the only way to go, the only reason to change is to exclude..

MR W Jones, Liverpool, England

Turkey has two choices, fellow the secular course, or go back to darkness and fellow the ignorant Moslem one. Those two will collide sooner or latter.
The army must make sure that the Moslem curse never wins.If that happens turkey will be finished as a secular stae,Darkness will fall over Turkey.

L.A. ISUFI, B. County .N.J., UNITED STATES

There have been regular 'coups' at 10 yaer intervals in Turkey and I observe the achievement of detaining people who have been planning such plans to overthrow the goverment, as a very succesfull step towards becoming a true and real democratic society.

Faruk, Istanbul, Turkey

Calling this political revenge is absurd since the court case against the AKP dates from March whereas the Ergenekon investigation is more than a year old, with the first retired general arrested in January. It is the so-called "secularists" who are trying to save their putschist skins.

Halil Kaptan, Izmir,

Just like the Balfour Declaration helped form Israel, same ideology is sewing the seeds of Sharia to divide Turkey

With the help of Saudi Arabia and the USA the AK Party handed out coal, grabbing seats of other parties who couldn't gain %10 of votes. The %46 does not reflect the peoples choice.

Charlie, London,

Turkey has been attempting to march westwards since 1923, albeit sometimes one step forward and two steps back. You can have secularism without democracy, but Islam is an all encompassing way of life and you cannot have democracy in Turkey without secularism - interesting times ahead.

John, UK

john, London, UK

They just wouldn't let it lie, would they? Months ago, when all this kicked off, the courts told the militants to leave well alone. They just can't keep their hands to themselves. Too jumpy. So big and mighty and strong: what are they afraid of?

Abdul Majeed, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK

The EU is hardly a democratic entity anyway. Do yourselves a favour Turkey and avoid the EU. The EU is one vote for a chosen few just one time and then there is no real point in voting thereafter.
A Turkish coup to prevent the formation of an Islamist state would be the least violent way forward

howard, London, UK

This country wants to be a EU member. If they still have the 'coup' mentality they have no place in EU

emma, peterborough, uk