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(ANSAmed) - BRUSSELS, AUGUST 29 - During a convention in Brussels on 'Laicity and secularism', organised by the radicals, some of the new challenges which characterise the relation between Europe and Islam were discussed: the Turkish situation and the role of women. The Turkish situation was the topic of the speech of Cheref-Khan Chemsi, president of the European Centre for Muslim Humanism: ¿The Turkish situation is delicate, democracy is still quite young and is `guided¿ by quite restrictive laws, both on religion and on the recognition of the Kurds¿, he said, explaining the reasons for the latest tensions within the country between the lay groups and AKP, the moderate Islamic party in power. Speaking about AKP, the lay intellectual concluded: "It has not yet managed to become the democratic force which Europe and Turkey need, because it still has a hard core of Islamic radicalism within itself, of which it must get rid in order to become a modern party according to European concepts". Ndeye Andujar, vice-president of Catalonia¿s Islamic council, spoke instead of the role of the Islamic woman in Europe: "The European governments are partly responsible for the secondary role of women, because they give space to the most widespread kind of Islam in the West, the most conservative one, and do not bother to open dialogues with women and emancipation movements like the Islamic feminists, who aim at affirming a more active female role, though remaining religious", she said. (ASNSAmed).