"Erdogan struggles to keep image alive
Thomas Seibert, Foreign Correspondent
* Last Updated: November 12. 2008 10:39PM UAE / GMT
ISTANBUL // For years, many Turks saw Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a charismatic leader with a vision of change and democracy. But today, six years after his Justice and Development Party, or AKP, swept to power in Nov 2002, even some of the prime minister’s long-time supporters say he has turned into a hardliner who seems to have forgotten his reformist agenda."
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