Sunday, April 29, 2007

Turkish FM insists on presidential bid despite army warning - Breaking News - World - Breaking News

"Turkish FM insists on presidential bid despite army warning

April 29, 2007 - 9:22PM

The presidential candidate of Turkey's Islamist-rooted government on Sunday ruled out withdrawing from the election depite the army's threat of action to protect the secular regime.

As the country faced an unprecedented political crisis, scores of thousands of people gathered here for a mass rally to support the country's secular order and reject the military threat of intervention."

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