Turkey's Gul elected president, says party deputy
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Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a  respected former Islamist, won a third round of voting in parliament on Tuesday to become Turkey's next president, a ruling AK Party deputy told Reuters.
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With former Islamist Abdullah Gul expected to be elected president Tuesday afternoon,  Turkey is anxiously awaiting the reaction of the secular military.
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ANKARA, Turkey -- A devout Muslim with a background in political Islam won the Turkish presidency on Tuesday, in a major triumph for the Islamic-rooted government after months of confrontation with the secular establishment.
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The vice-president of Indonesia has been elected leader of the most powerful political party in the country, Golkar. Jusuf Kalla comfortably beat the incumbent Akbar Tandjung.
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Bosnia's wartime foreign minister Haris Silajdzic won the race for the Muslim member of the three-man presidency against incumbent Sulejman Tihic, preliminary results and party projections showed on Monday.
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Turkish MPs are expected to elect a controversial former Islamist, Abdullah Gul, as president of the republic.
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Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Thursday Turkey was determined to take the necessary steps to end the threat from Kurdish guerrillas based in northern Iraq.
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Turkey will pursue reforms to align itself with European Union norms despite a partial freeze of its membership talks, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has said, describing the EU sanction as only a temporary setback to the country's European aspirations.
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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 leaders on Tuesday appointed the first civilian to oversee the country's influential security council, part of efforts to stem the influence of the military and implement reforms necessary for joining the European Union.
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President Nursultan Nazarbayev's party claimed victory in parliamentary elections in the central Asian state of Kazakhstan, the party's deputy chairman said.
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Abdullah Gul&#39;s first task as Turkish  president will be to approve the new cabinet of Prime Minister  Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday, hoping to push ahead with stalled  reforms needed to join the EU.
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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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DAVOS, Switzerland  - Turkish Prime Minister  Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that this weekend's Iraqi  election would not be fully democratic and was unlikely to stem  violence or help stabilize the country.
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Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul of Turkey failed on Tuesday to persuade Germany's conservative opposition to back Turkey's bid for full European Union membership, but said he was confident the bloc would give a ...
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ISTANBUL -- The European Union's decision to start membership talks with Turkey gives the Muslim country a new position in Europe and the Islamic world, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said yesterday.
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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.