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...rally. But the new AKP-dominated parliament lifted the ban, despite an initial veto by secularist President Ahmet Necdet Sezer. Erdogan will likely run in, and win, a local election in Siirt province, due within three months. The enigmatic populist can then officially take over from his close ally Abdullah Gul, who took the job until the legal problems could be sorted out. The changes should do away with the anomaly of a leader who "clearly holds power" but no accountability, says analyst Ismet Berkan in Istanbul. "It will be a huge step to normalizing the political setup." - By Andrew...
...relatively paltry j40.4 billion in financial aid they'll receive from the Union up until 2006. They may not welcome the prospect of eventually having to share aid with Turkey, a massive country with a lower per capita gdp than all the new joiners. Still, Turkish Prime Minister Abdullah Gul sees the glass as half-full. "Some politicians think the E.U. is a Christian club," he said. "This summit showed that this opinion isn't correct." Justice and Development Party leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan was widely criticized alongside the Americans for being too forceful in his demands, but in effect...
...capital of Jakarta in Christmas 2000. In the mid-1980s Ali Ghufron went to study in Malaysia, and a few years later Amrozi set out to look for him. Ali Ghufron had fallen in with a group of fellow Indonesians living in Malaysia, led by Abubakar and his mentor Abdullah Sungkar, who shared poverty and a militant brand of Islam. Abubakar and Sungkar had fled Indonesia to avoid being thrown in prison by the government of President Suharto for espousing radical views...
...near Poso on the island of Sulawesi, the scene of Christian and Muslim fighting that has cost hundreds of lives in recent years, that intelligence officials believe was used by al-Qaeda for training recruits. Syawal, intelligence sources add, is also distinguished by his marriage to the daughter of Abdullah Sungkar, the Indonesian man who fled with radical cleric Abubakar Ba'asyir to Malaysia in 1985. Sungkar and Abubakar both es-caped jail sentences imposed by the Suharto regime and lived in exile in Malaysia for more than a decade. Sungkar died of natural causes in 1999, while Abubakar returned...
...call for reform within the Islamic clergy; his lawyers hope to have the sentence overturned on appeal. Another prominent pro-reform figure, Abbas Abdi, was also arrested. But there was good news for the reform movement too: the release of the Iran's top political dissident, former Interior Minister Abdullah Nouri, by Supreme Leader Ayatallah Ali Khamenei. Nouri's an ally of President Mohammed Khatami. Meanwhile, a constitutional crisis loomed after parliament passed a bill to strip the hard-line clerics of some of their powers. The bill must be approved by the Council of Guardians, the body whose powers...