Turkish parliament poised to elect Gul president
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Turkish lawmakers Tuesday began a decisive round of voting in presidential elections expected to install Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul as the secular republic&#39;s first head of state with an Islamist past.
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Abdullah Gul falls short of target in second parliamentary vote but should triumph at third time of asking next week.
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Turkey expects its troubled European Union membership talks to move forward before the end of the year with the opening of some policy chapters in negotiations, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said on Tuesday.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul refuses to rule out a presidential bid after his AK party's election win.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to travel to Brussels on Friday for talks on his country's bid to join the European Union, Erdogan said on Tuesday.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Monday celebrated a decisive poll victory but now faces challenges over delayed presidential elections, Kurdish separatist violence and Ankara's troubled EU bid.
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Turkish President Abdullah Gul will make his first visit to Washington as president next month to discuss Turkey's EU accession goals and efforts to quell Kurdish rebels in Iraq, a spokesman said Friday.
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ISTANBUL, Aug 28 (IPS) - Overriding concerns by the ever-watchful military  and the secularists, Turkey's parliament elected foreign  minister Abdullah Gul as the first Islamic-rooted president of  the 83-year-old republic on Tuesday.
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Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul failed to win enough votes in the second round of a presidential election on Friday to become president, an AK Party deputy told Reuters, but he is expected to clinch enough votes next week.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 15  - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Brussels late Wednesday ahead of an EU summit widely expected to give Ankara a green light to start membership negotiations with the bloc.
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Turkey's Islamic-rooted ruling party was headed for victory Sunday with more than half the votes counted in parliamentary elections that pitted the government against opponents warning of a threat to secular traditions.
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Turks elect a new parliament on Sunday in what has been billed as one of the most important polls of their recent history following a clash between the ruling Islamist-rooted AK Party and the nation's secular elite.
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to hold talks with the EU commissioner in charge of the blocâs enlargement process Guenter Verheugen, and members of the European Parliament, including European Parliament chief Josep Borrell, as well as
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Turkish lawmakers voted Saturday for a second and final time in favour of a constitutional amendment package to lift a ban on Islamic headscarves in universities, parliament speaker Koksal Toptan said.
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Eight years after a lawmaker was thrown  out of Turkey&#39;s parliament for wearing a Muslim-style  headscarf, devout Turks are pinning hopes of more religious  rights on their next president and his headscarf-wearing wife.
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Islamabad: Pakistan&#39;s parliament is due to elect ex-finance minister Shaukat Aziz as prime minister on Friday in a rubber-stamp vote in the final stages of a two-month transfer of power to President Pervez Musharraf&#39;s chosen man.
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The European Union must vote to start membership talks with Turkey immediately and without attaching more conditions when its leaders meet tomorrow in Brussels, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said.