Turkey at war  Wholeheartedly or not, the ruling Justice and
Development Party (AKP by its Turkish acronym) of Turkey is
playing a very dangerous game. Squeezed between two pro-war
minorities, the militarist elite – led by the Army and its
faithful underdogs in corporate media and political circles –
and the big bourgeoisie – the “White Turks” of Istanbul business
circles – the neo-Islamist leadership of AKP (chiefly its
“natural” leader Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Abdullah Gul)
is desperately trying to convince the rank-and-file that AKP has
no more room to maneuver between supporting U.S. militarism and
buttering up antiwar sentiments of Turkey’s citizens.  AKP’s MPs
are basically told that they have to stop being self-respecting
Muslims who believe in justice and democracy, that they have to
ignore voices of protest coming from their grassroots
constituencies which carried AKP to power, and that they have to
be “realistic” about allowing the bombardment, starvation and
massacre of another Muslim popu