"Ataturk office won't become toilet: Turkish leader
Fri Jun 6, 2008 10:27am EDT
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Abdullah Gul denied on Friday he planned to turn the palace office of modern Turkey's founder into a toilet.
A columnist in staunchly secularist Cumhuriyet newspaper had said Gul, a former Islamist and ex-member of the ruling AK Party, was converting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's old office in the presidential palace in Ankara into a toilet."
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