Religion & Liberty

Volume 18, Number 2 • Spring 2008

Featuring:

“Turkey: Islam's Bridge to Religious and Economic Liberty?,” an interview with Mustafa Akyol

Mustafa Akyol is a Turkish Muslim writer based in Istanbul, Turkey, where he is currently the opinion editor and a columnist for Turkish Daily News, the nation's foremost English-language newspaper. He also writes a regular column for the Turkish national daily, Star. Akyol's articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, The American Interest, First Things, and The Weekly Standard, among others. He has a book in Turkish titled, Rethinking The Kurdish Question: What Went Wrong? What Next? (Dogan Publishing, 2006). Akyol is currently working on a book in English on the future of Islam and the Islamic world. His columns are collected on the website, The White Path (www.thewhitepath. com), which is the English translation of his name. Akyol spoke at the 2008 Acton University in Grand Rapids on the subject of "Islam, Markets and the Free Society." He was interviewed in Grand Rapids by Religion & Liberty executive editor John Couretas.

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