"Turkey's archaic authoritarian model crumbling
Aug 30, 2007 04:30 AM
Haroon Siddiqui
The election of Abdullah Gul as Turkey's first "Islamist" president over the objections of the "secularist" military is more than a triumph of democracy.
Combined with last month's sweeping victory of the ruling party, it represents a historic development with domestic and international implications."
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