Friday, April 20, 2007

Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | Turkey's secularist comeback

"Turkey's secularist comeback
Turkish secularists take to the streets to try to prevent Erdogan from becoming president, reports Gareth Jenkins from Ankara

More than 750,000 secularist Turks staged the largest demonstration in Turkish history on Saturday, marching through the streets of Ankara in an effort to persuade Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan of the moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party (JDP) not to run for the presidency later this month"

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