"Turkey's AKP offers olive branch to secularists
Wed Aug 8, 2007 12:22PM EDT
By Gareth Jones
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's ruling AK Party offered an olive branch on Wednesday to the powerful secular elite by proposing a non-Islamist for the post of parliamentary speaker, but it has yet to say who will be its choice for president.
The Islamist-rooted AK Party is naming candidates for the top jobs in Turkey's state hierarchy following its landslide win in July 22 parliamentary elections."
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