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If the results of the Turkish election had been designed by a committee consisting of Henry Kissinger, Bernard Lewis, and Dick Morris, it could scarcely have come up with a more calming outcome. The election has given the ruling party, the moderate Islamic AKP, a parliamentary majority, but one that falls short of the two-thirds required to alter the secularist Turkish constitution. There would be massive voter opposition to anything that smacked of hard-line Islamism. It would be wise if the three main political players--the AKP, the floundering Kemalist establishment, and the highly respected armed forces--reached a compromise on the issue that provoked these elections, namely the ...