Turkey's AKP faces challenges after big poll win
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Turkey's ruling AK Party on Monday celebrated its decisive victory in a parliamentary election, but strong nationalist gains dented its majority and could hamper reforms crucial to its European Union bid.
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A devout Muslim won Turkey's presidency yesterday after months of confrontation with the secular establishment, promising to be impartial and praising the idea that Islam and the state should be separate.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for the lifting of a ban on women wearing headscarves at state universities. Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party began drafting a new constitution after its landslide election victory in July.  The separation of religion and state enshrined in the current constitution is one of the key issues in the debate.
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CAIRO, Aug. 28 -- Beaming as the votes were counted, a veteran government figure with roots in political Islam won a parliamentary vote to become Turkey's president Tuesday, in defiance of the country's strongly secular military. Abdullah Gul's triumph presented Turkey's generals with a choice:...
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ANKARA, Turkey  - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned home from a European Union summit Saturday to announce amidst a shower of confetti and fireworks that Turkey "has turned the critical corner" on the way to becoming a member of the group of nations.
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The AKP sweep has implications for the country's drift from secularism, the military's role and the future of relations with Iraq.
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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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Turkey's ruling party claimed a resounding victory Sunday in parliamentary elections. But the AKP's Islamic roots and its appeal to religious supporters have unnerved many in the officially secular nation.
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Turkey&#39;s marathon campaign to join the EU appeared to gain momentum on Thursday after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan assured the union&#39;s worried bureaucrats in Brussels, Belgium, that his governing Islamic party was not straying from Turkey&#39;s
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Turkey votes on Sunday in a parliamentary election pitting the ruling Islamist-rooted AK Party against nationalists who disagree strongly over the future path of the secular Muslim country.
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Turkey's ruling AK Party won a resounding election victory on Sunday, giving the pro-business, Islamist-rooted party a mandate for reform but risking fresh tensions with the secular elite.
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Turkey has become more democratic in recent years, and the competing forces of the religious and secular have burst into full view.
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Turkey has its endemic inflation under control and its growth rate is impressive, but experts say it must deal with a huge public deficit and knock its labyrinthine bureaucracy into shape if it gets the go-ahead Friday to start membership talks with the European Union.
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A vote in Parliament set the stage for a showdown with the secular elite over Islamâs place in Turkish society.
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Turkey's Alevi Muslims have been branded "pagans" for their musical ceremonies and liberal customs but Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is seeking their votes as his party reaches out beyond its devout Sunni Muslim base.
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ISTANBUL, Jul 23 (IPS) - Turkey's governing Justice and Development  Party (AKP), with its roots in Islam but professing to be secular  and conservative, won a landslide victory in general elections  Sunday. What it does in coming days will determine how long it  stays in office.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan  celebrated on Monday a decisive poll victory but now faces  challenges over delayed presidential elections, Kurdish  separatist violence and Ankara&#39;s troubled EU bid.