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Sunday, September 12, 2010

AFP: Turks vote in divisive referendum

"Turks vote in divisive referendum

By Sibel Utku Bila (AFP) – 12 hours ago

ANKARA — Turks voted Sunday in a referendum on bitterly divisive constitutional changes, seen as a key test of confidence in the Islamist-rooted government.

The core of the package, pushed through parliament in May by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), aims to restructure the higher echelons of Turkey's judiciary, a secularist bastion at loggerheads with the government."

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