Word: devlet
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...Still, nationalist elements in both countries are opposed to any kind of rapprochement. Deniz Baykal, leader of Turkey's Republican People's party, said he would prefer to see President Gul attend a match in Baku instead. Devlet Bahceli, leader of the Nationalist Action party, said it was a mistake to travel to Yerevan before Turkey and Armenia had solved their problems...
...militants as a threat to the unity of the Turkish Republic. Talat Salk, who prosecuted Ocalan in 1999, warned that a retrial would have "huge reverberations" and play directly into the hands of Kurdish "terrorists" by providing them with a pretext to hold demonstrations in major cities. Nationalist politician Devlet Bahceli said the trial would be like a "time bomb" that ignited simmering ethnic tensions. But the decision also pits those who want to Westernize the country's judicial and political systems to speed E.U. accession against Turkish nationalists, many of whose idea of "Turkishness" dates back to the days...