Turkish PM, rivals make final appeal to voters
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Turkey's politicians made a final pitch for votes on the eve of a parliamentary election the ruling AK Party is tipped to win, despite rivals' claims this would boost Islam in the secular nation's public life.
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Turks go to the polls Sunday for early legislative elections to end a crisis that has pitted the Islamist-rooted government against the secular establishment and called into question the role of religion in the Muslim-majority country.
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday he would hold three-way talks with French and German leaders on Turkey's EU membership bid, which the two heavyweights of the bloc oppose.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been holding talks in Brussels ahead of a key European Union summit on Turkey&#39;s bid to join the EU.
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Turkey&#39;s main opposition party on  Tuesday agreed to an offer by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to  seek a compromise candidate to elect as the next head of state  after months of wrangling.
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Amid soaring market optimism, Turkish  Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told his cheering party faithful  on Tuesday the European Union would agree this week to open  long-delayed entry talks with the populous Muslim country.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Tuesday indicated he would resist calls from the influential military for an incursion into neighbouring northern Iraq to pursue Turkish Kurd rebels taking refuge there.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for active measures aimed at solving the Cyprus issue. Erdogan said Turkey can&#39;t protect its interests in Cyprus if Turkey
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Ahead of elections on Sunday, the leader of Turkey's hard-line nationalists flung a hangman's noose from a podium to make a point: He thinks the prime minister is soft on terrorism and should hang the imprisoned leader of Kurdish rebels.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in London for talks focussed on the Muslim state's bid to join the European Union.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan  urged the European Union on Thursday to open its doors to  non-Christians after French President Jacques Chirac made a  vibrant appeal to bring Turkey into the EU.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan vowed to press on with reforms to turn his secular, Muslim country into a modern democracy on a par with its European neighbors after a fresh election victory.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, with a fresh election triumph under his belt, said he would press on with reforms to turn his secular, Muslim country into a modern democracy on a par with its European neighbors.
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Any final agreement brokered on the Cyprus issue should be voted on in a referendum, the Prime Minister said. Turkey is to commit itself to finding a solution to the dispute on Cyprus, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said Friday.
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Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, facing pressure on security issues ahead of elections, will send his foreign minister to Washington next week to lobby for a crackdown on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.
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PARIS: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview published on Thursday that he is looking to President Jacques Chirac to reassure Ankara over Franceâs backing for its bid to join the European Union.
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Turkey moved closer to winning a date for the start of European Union entry negotiations after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged to heal Turkey&#39;s diplomatic standoff with new EU member Cyprus.