"Turkish PM fights for survival with plea for Islamists and secular judges to avoid clash
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Turkey's embattled prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, launched an attempt to save his political skin yesterday by seeking to lower tensions in a power struggle with the state's secular establishment that threatens to split the country, close his party and oust him from office."
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