Monday, April 30, 2007

Protesters and military see red as Islamist heads for the presidency-News-World-Europe-TimesOnline

"Protesters and military see red as Islamist heads for the presidency

Hundreds of thousands of secularist Turks took to the streets for the second time in two weeks yesterday after a dramatic intervention by the military in an attempt to stop Abdullah Gul becoming the first Turkish President with an Islamist past.

Demonstrators in Istanbul carried blood-red national flags and posters of Kemal Atatürk, the founder of a secular Turkey. Banners read: “Sharia (Islamic law) shall not rise to the Presidential Palace.” "

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