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Monday, May 25, 2009

Prime minister admits Turkey’s ‘fascist’ past - The National Newspaper

"Prime minister admits Turkey’s ‘fascist’ past

Thomas Seibert, Foreign Correspondent

* Last Updated: May 25. 2009 8:57PM UAE / May 25. 2009 4:57PM GMT

ISTANBUL // Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has become his country’s first head of government to acknowledge publicly that his country displayed a “fascist approach” in dealing with its minorities in the past, when Christians and Jews fled abroad after coming under pressure."

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