-- I have some issues with this article and the ignorance of many people who are working on this so here it goes:
"Turkey is engaged in a bold and profound attempt to rewrite the basis for Islamic sharia law while also officially reinterpreting the Qur'an for the modern age."
--When did they become an expert in Interperting Islamic Law, Islamic Sharia, or the Quran? It's like Italy or Some other Non-Muslim Country trying to Interperit the Hadiths and the Qur'an and then saying this is what Muslims should believe First tell them to Learn about Islam and to start worshipping Allah instead of Attaturk or Ali, before they can start interpreting anything related to Islam. If they want to interperit something to suit them then that is their problem don't involve Islam or Muslims in this. This should be something Turkey wants for their people even though there might be things which go against Islam, this shouldn't involve Other muslims in this.
"The result, say experts following the ambitious experiment, could be to diminish Muslim discrimination against women, banish some of the brutal penalties associated with Islamic law, such as stoning and amputation, and redefine Islam as a modern, dynamic force in the large country that pivots between east and west, leaning into the Middle East while aspiring to join the European Union."
--Discimination against women? If they think Islam discriminates against women, then what would be the point of Muslim women to raise their children in Islam, if it discriminats against them? They would rather teach them a religion or a belief all across the world other then Islam since as the article says Islam discriminates against women. But we have women who teach their children about Islam and they also are many women who teach Islam in schools and universitys. Why would women do this if discrimination is allowed in Islam?
"A team of reformist
Islamic scholars at Ankara University
--Sorry there is no "Islamic" Scholars of Islam in Turkey maybe wannabe ignorant people who think they are scholars but no real Islamic Scholars, the Only Scholars of Islam which I am familar with are those from Umm Quraa and Islamic University of Medina in KSA, who dedicate their life to the Qur'an and the Sunnah and teach it to other but maybe some here or there in some countries as well : )
"abolition of the death penalty, a campaign against
honour killings, and the training and appointment of several hundred women as imams"
--Death Penalty are for rapist, Murderers, those who Torture, and those who spy against ones country. And each and everyone of them have reasons for it. No one wants to live in a country or a place where some guy rapes a girl or women then gets jail time for 20-30 years then goes back to the street to rape more amoung innocent women and girls. And Honor Killings is not part of Islam to begin with, that is why you would only see Honor Killings in countries like Turkey, Jordan, Pakistan and other Countries which are Higly Influenced by Sufism/Ikwani'ism/Shiaism/Deobandi'ees which are groups outside the fold of Islam. That is why you won't see Honor Killings In Places like Saudia because they don't have the same Evil Ideology in terms of religion like those other countries I mentioned.
"It says that a significant number of the sayings were never uttered by Muhammad, and even some that were need now to be reinterpreted."
--Those who narrarated the Hadiths were His companions and sometimes members of his family and there is a chain of Narrarations which go Back to him. There are also many companions who varify what he said and he did and they all agree with one another. There is something called "Science" of Hadiths which real Scholars study.
"Turkey is intent on sweeping away that "
cultural baggage" and returning to a form of Islam it claims accords with its original values and those of the Prophet."
--Islam isn't a "cultural baggage" to begin with you made Islam a cultural thing? If that was so then there would be no reason for practising Islam if it is all about culture. So what we call African people who aren't Muslims? Part of African Animist Culture?
"There's also violence against women within families, including sexual harassment... This does not exist in Islam... we have to explain that to them"
--Sexual Harassment isn't part of Islam and I don't even know why this person would even bring that up when this happens in every country. Islam doesn't say to Sexually Harrass your wife or daughter if this sick pervert thinks so then he should be in a Mental Hospital
""Fadi Hakura believes that until now secularist Turkey has been intent on creating a new
politics for Islam."
--Islam is not a Polticall System it's a way of Life a deen(religion), and If they are Muslims they shouldn't involve themselves in Politics, they should busy themselves knowing who to worship and How to worship first then they can start talking about other things
""You can't say, for example, that the verses of violence override the verses of peace. This is used a lot in the Middle East, this kind of ideology."
--We take no Hadith no Matter if they are latter Hadiths or New Hadith because there is no such thing called Latter or New Hadith, There is something In Islam called "Science" of Hadiths which I metioned before, where we verify the chain of Narrarations. This is how we verify Hadiths, we don't verify Hadiths based upon Old or New Hadiths because the Old Hadiths might be currupted Text.
"I cannot impress enough how fundamental "
--Yah I'm sure how fundamentalist this change is