"Turks stage large rally against Islamic-rooted government
IZMIR, Turkey: More than 1 million Turks staged a secular rally Sunday in the country's third-largest city, fearful that the Islamic-rooted government is conspiring to impose religious values on society.
Police deployed thousands of officers, a day after a bomb at an Izmir market killed one person and injured 14 others. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, nor evidence that it was linked to the demonstration. Izmir is a port city on the Aegean coast that is a bastion of secularism, and Islamic parties fare poorly there."
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