Turkey's Islamist-rooted ruling party wins big
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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 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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Morocco's conservative Istiqlal party, a member of the kingdom's ruling coalition, won most seats in parliamentary elections that opposition Islamists said were skewed by vote buying.
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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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India's ruling Congress party won power in a giant state on Saturday, a victory that would boost the fortunes of Italian-born Sonia Gandhi's party and strengthen Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's minority national coalition.
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Abdullah Gulâs victory breaks an 84-year grip on power by the secular establishment.
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ISTANBUL -- Turkish voters handed the Islamist-influenced ruling party a decisive victory in parliamentary elections yesterday, rewarding it for stewardship of Turkey's robust economy but raising the specter of new disputes over the feared erosion of the country's secular traditions.
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Turkey&#39;s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is leading with 50.1 percent of the vote in Sunday&#39;s general elections, with almost 35 percent of the vote counted, the CNN Turk news channel reported.
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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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A Shi'ite Islamist bloc won Iraq's  first election since Saddam Hussein's overthrow, sealing the  political resurgence of the nation's long-oppressed majority.
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Egypt's electoral authorities say the ruling National Democratic Party has won 84 out of 88 seats contested.
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Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was elected president by Turkey's parliament on Tuesday, the first former Islamist to take the post in the secular but predominantly Muslim country's modern history.
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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 divided the country over religion's role in a secular state.
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Turkeyâs election is being cast as a battle between Islamists and secularists. But the real struggle is not over whether the country should be more religious but over whether it should be more European--and more free.
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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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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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The party backing ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra easily won the most seats in Sunday's election, a stunning rejection of the coup which booted out the telecoms billionaire in 2006.