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Ancient statues weren't white marble, but “a riot of colour and glitzy decoration." It shows that we've imagined the ancient world all wrong, writes Natalie Haynes.

Ten months ago, thirty-something Jessica was eager to get pregnant. A series of relationships had failed so she tried a radically new approach - she posted an advert online. The outcome turned out to be far better than she had hoped.

In spite of being in power for fourteen years, those conservative-religious masses that constitute the power base of the AKP have yet to be able to go beyond formal, official relations with the West so as to establish an effective and widespread communication and interaction network with it. On the other hand, in the wake of 15th July conservatives and secularists are united for the first time in a very long while in beholding more or less the same picture of Turkey, which means that they also share the same irritation and indignation that what the West sees is an altogether different one.

The bottom line is that we have seen the consequences of modernization through the military, and we don’t want to see the armed forces in politics any more.

Why was Gülen appreciated by both the centre-right and the centre-left? What was the motive that drove both right-wing and left-wing governments to aid and assist Gülen, and to collaborate with him whenever needed? I believe the reason can be found in the way Gülen’s ideas were able to integrate conservatism, nationalism, and a kind of religiosity that took secularist sensitivities into account.