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MASS RALLY IN TURKEY AMID TENSE POLITICAL STANDOFF
April 29, 2007
More than a million Turks took to the streets of Istanbul on Sunday waving flags and shouting slogans in defence of the country's cherished secular system and against army intervention in politics. The demo comes amid a tense stand-off between the Islamist-rooted government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the army. Erdogan's ruling AKP party failed to get parliamentary approval for its choice for Turkey's next president on Friday. Erdogan's ruling AKP party failed to get parliamentary approval for its choice for Turkey's next president on Friday.The sole candidate in the race is Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a former Islamist whose election, secularists fear, will increase the influence of religion in all fields of life.
