Thursday, April 18, 2013

Öcalan and Gülen make Time’s 100 most influential people list

Öcalan and Gülen make Time’s 100 most influential people list

ISTANBUL

The jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, and Turkish religious scholar Fethullah Gülen have been selected in Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most-influential people in the world, published on April 18, in the 65th and 71st positions respectively. The choice of the two much-debated names in the category of “leaders,” was accompanied with short profiles that justified their importance and weighed current political conjuncture.

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