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Stephen Sackur interviews Turkish historian Taner Akcam. Powerful forces in Turkey, many in military uniform, see new president Abdullah Gul's elevation as a threat to secular-nationalist values. Akcam has experienced prison and exile at the hands of such forces, and explains that Ankara's commitment to human rights and democracy has still to be tested.