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Thursday, June 02, 2011

Turkey's opposition tries to turn the AK party tide | Reuters

"Turkey's opposition tries to turn the AK party tide

By Seda Sezer

IZMIR, Turkey | Thu Jun 2, 2011 1:15pm EDT

(Reuters) - Watching Sebahattin Guney relax with a beer and a cigarette at a seafront cafe it is hard to understand why he feels under siege in his own country.

Like many in the Aegean city of Izmir, the 57-year-old sees Turkey's secularists fighting with their backs to the sea to stem the advance of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party."

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