"Candidate Once Doomed as Islamist Is Ascendant
By SABRINA TAVERNISE and SEBNEM ARSU
Published: August 28, 2007
After being shut out of the presidency last spring, Abdullah Gul, a religious man in the assiduously secular realm of Turkish politics, allowed himself a little soul-searching.
“Has the government limited women’s rights?” Mr. Gul, 56, asked a panel of newspaper editors on national television, hoping to persuade Turkey’s establishment that it had nothing to fear from his candidacy. "
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