"Kurdish politicians boost Gul’s hopes
Published: Saturday, 18 August, 2007, 06:59 AM Doha Time ANKARA: Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition party has signalled that it would not boycott a parliamentary vote next week to elect a new president, boosting the hopes of ruling party candidate Abdullah Gul. “We should never hamper the functioning of the democratic system,” said Ahmet Turk, head of the Democratic Society Party (DTP), after Gul, currently the foreign minister, visited the party in a bid to drum up support. “The fact that Mr Gul’s wife wears the (Islamic) headscarf is not important for us. What matters are his own qualities ... we hope Mr Gul will follow policies that would embrace all 72mn people of this country.”"
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