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Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Erdogan speaks of brotherhood with Turks at campaign rally - CNN.com

"Erdogan speaks of brotherhood with Turks at campaign rally
From Ivan Watson and Yesim Comert
June 1, 2011 -- Updated 2350 GMT (0750 HKT)

(CNN) -- At a campaign rally in the predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan tried Wednesday to draw parallels between the oppression and persecution Turkey's largest ethnic minority has faced and the pressure he himself faced under Turkey's former secularist leaders."

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