Turkey's ruling AKP wins vote
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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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ISTANBUL, July 23 -- Voters on Sunday overwhelmingly returned to power a political party that brought a mix of mild Islam and intense economic development to governing Turkey, rebuking the secular military whose challenge led to the early election.
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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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Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was set to be elected Turkey's next president on Tuesday, the first time in the secular but predominantly Muslim country's modern history that the post will go to a former Islamist.
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ANKARA, Turkey  - Parliament overwhelmingly approved Sunday legal reforms expected to boost Turkey's chances of starting membership talks with the European Union after the governing party dropped a proposal to criminalize adultery that EU leaders sharply opposed.
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The Turkish president overrules a referendum plan on whether the people should directly elect his successor.
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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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Turkey&#39;s bid for EU membership talks passed a crucial test yesterday when the parliament in Ankara backed legal changes to underpin the country&#39;s reform programme.
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Three political parties are set to win seats in Turkey's new parliament, Turkish FOX television channel reported on Sunday as votes were being counted.
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President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party won a majority of seats in elections for Egypt's upper house of parliament, a state-run newspaper reported Tuesday.
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Turkey's parliament voted on Saturday to lift a ban on female students wearing the Muslim headscarf at university, a landmark decision that some Turks say will undermine the foundations of the secular state.
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Abdullah Gul prevailed today in a parliamentary vote, breaking the secular establishmentâs 84-year grip on political power.
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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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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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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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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey  - Turks began voting 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 parliament voted Saturday to lift a ban on Islamic headscarves at universities, handing victory to the Islamist-rooted ruling party as tens of thousands protested the deeply controversial move.