"Turkey's Gul faces short wait for president's post Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:08AM
By Paul de Bendern ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's new parliament holds a second round of voting on Friday for the country's presidency, but Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul is not expected to clinch the post until next week. Gul, a highly respected diplomat who helped secure European Union-accession talks for Turkey, is distrusted by Turkey's military and secular elite because he served as a minister in an Islamist party chased from power in 1997."
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