Islamist Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of what was once semi-secular Turkey, paraphrased that motto in 1998 in a poem: ''The minarets are our bayonets, the domes our helmets, the mosques our barracks, and the faithful our army.''19. The poem earned him a jail sentence and banishment from Turkish politics. However, the Turkish constitution was changed in 2001 and this allowed him to enter politics again.
And now he runs the place. Oops.
