Presidential race highlights Erdoğan's reshaping of Turkish politics
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Photo: Today's Zaman)
June 30, 2014, Monday/ 18:02:29/ REUTERS / ISTANBUL
A quick glance at the emerging candidates for Turkey's first direct presidential poll illustrates the dramatic change wrought in the country by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's 11-year premiership; an old secularist elite has yielded the stage to two men of Islamist pedigree and a third from a long-suppressed Kurdish minority.
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