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Saturday, February 21, 2009

AFP: Turkish PM woos Kurds ahead of vote

"Turkish PM woos Kurds ahead of vote

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AFP) — Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday launched a campaign to wrest control of the country's biggest Kurdish-dominated city in local elections next month, pledging better hospitals, cheap housing and more investment.

Security was tight for Erdogan's visit to Diyarbakir, the regional capital of the mainly Kurdish southeast, which the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is seeking to win from the Democratic Society Party (DTP), the country's main Kurdish party, in the March 29 elections."

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