{"id":45524,"date":"2011-10-17T08:33:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T05:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=45524"},"modified":"2023-04-30T15:06:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T12:06:05","slug":"tunisias-islamists-set-for-big-gains-as-world-casts-wary-eye-on-landmark-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/10\/17\/tunisias-islamists-set-for-big-gains-as-world-casts-wary-eye-on-landmark-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia\u2019s Islamists set for big gains as world casts wary eye on landmark elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Associated Press, Published: October 16<\/p>\n<p>TUNIS, Tunisia \u2014 As the land that launched the Arab Spring heads into historic elections next week, all eyes are on the long-repressed Islamists \u2014 and whether a big victory for them will irrevocably change this North African nation and inspire similar conservative movements around the region.<\/p>\n<p>Many fear that despite vows to uphold democracy, Tunisia\u2019s Islamist Ennahda Party is bent on imposing a theocracy that would roll back hard-won secularism and women\u2019s rights. Others see an opportunity to bring a moderate form of political Islam into the Arab world \u2014 one styled after the successful ruling party in thriving Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>via Tunisia\u2019s Islamists set for big gains as world casts wary eye on landmark elections &#8211; The Washington Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Associated Press, Published: October 16 TUNIS, Tunisia \u2014 As the land that launched the Arab Spring heads into historic elections next week, all eyes are on the long-repressed Islamists \u2014 and whether a big victory for them will irrevocably change this North African nation and inspire similar conservative movements around the region. Many fear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":108355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4682],"tags":[9437],"class_list":["post-45524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tunisia","tag-isis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}