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Monday, October 18, 2010

Former Turkish leader Erbakan party leader again | Journalist in Turkey, background articles, news and weblog about Turkey and Istanbul

"Former Turkish leader Erbakan party leader again
Published on: Sunday 17 Oct 2010, 21:23 by Fréderike Geerdink in Politics, Stories
Written for: news agency ANP

ISTANBUL – At a party congress in Ankara Necmettin Erbakan (84), former Prime Minister of Turkey, has been elected leader of the religious Saadet Partisi (Felicity Party). Erbakan, the grand old man of conservative Islamic Turkish politics, once again has firm control of the party, according to several Turkish media reports on Sunday."

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