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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-28-07 10:52 AM
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Turks elect ex-Islamist president
Edited on Tue Aug-28-07 10:52 AM by LSK
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a former Islamist, has been elected president in a parliamentary vote.

He is the first politician with an Islamist background to become head of state since the creation of the deeply secular Turkish Republic in 1923.

Mr Gul was elected in a third round of voting, after months of tension between Turkey's ruling Islamist-rooted AK Party and the secular establishment.

On Monday the military warned about threats to the secular constitution.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6966216.stm

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