Soccer Causes Rare Stir in Turkish Ruling Party
In Turkey, soccer matters.
Its influence reaches far beyond the stadiums of Istanbul and Anatolia. Occasionally, it can even be felt in the corridors of power. This week offered a case in point, as a law to reduce penalties for sports crimes appeared to open a rift within the ruling AK Party — Turkey’s slickest political machine that has shown rock-solid unity and gravity-defying popularity since sweeping to power in 2002.
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