Gül signals no step back from second term
If the talk of the town in Ankara last week was real and if Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan’s timing in opening up his “democratization package” on Sept. 30 really was an attempt to dominate public attention a day before the opening of the legislative year - in which President Abdullah Gül was due to make his traditional opening speech - one might say that Gül really outmaneuvered such a hypothetical move with his performance yesterday.
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