Thursday, July 07, 2005

Hurriyetim:Erdogan in Idaho: Religion-based politics no good

"Erdogan in Idaho: Religion-based politics no good

In his speech yesterday as the guest of honor at the Sun Valley Conference, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave this message to the audience: 'Using religion in the practise of politics or making religion a vehicle for ideology is no different than attempting to assassinate democracy, humanity and religion.' The title of the speech given by PM Erdogan in Idaho yesterday was 'The Turkish Model and the Axis of Democracy, Islam and Political Secularity.'"

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