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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Turkey's ruling Islamist-rooted AK Party looks on course to win enough votes on Sunday to govern alone again in an election that has focused on the separation of state and religion.
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Turkey's Islamic-rooted ruling party won parliamentary elections by a wide margin Sunday, and the prime minister pledged to safeguard the country's secular traditions and do whatever the government deems necessary to fight separatist Kurdish rebels.
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Turkey's governing AK Party have claimed a comprehensive victory in the country's general election. Send us your reaction.
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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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Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul refuses to rule out a presidential bid after his AK party's election win.
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Turkey's ruling AK Party won 51.6 percent of the vote in a decisive national election victory on Sunday after nearly a quarter of votes had been counted, according to private broadcaster CNN Turk.
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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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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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ANKARA, Turkey -- Thousands of cheering supporters showered Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan with ticker tape yesterday as he returned to Ankara from a European summit, vowing to press forward with reforms and the country's bid to join the bloc.
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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  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.
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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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Turkey's ruling AK Party looks set to win Sunday's parliamentary elections, but the size of its majority could depend on millions of young voters who will cast their ballots for the first time this week.
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Turkish commentators Friday hailed the successful end to a sudden crisis over a key reform package which had threatened to derail the country&#39;s much-coveted EU bid, but jibed at the government for failing to avert the turmoil.
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Turkey's military issued a stern warning on Monday about the threat to secularism on the eve of an expected triumph of the Islamic-oriented government: the election of a loyal &#151; and devout &#151; president.
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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.