Word: erbakan
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Born into a working-class family on Turkey's Black Sea coast, Erdogan moved at age 13 to Istanbul, where he joined the youth wing of a party founded by Necmettin Erbakan, architect of Turkey's political Islamic movement. Erbakan, who later briefly became Prime Minister, saw in the tall young soccer fanatic an ambitious orator of considerable charm...
Elected mayor of Istanbul in 1994, Erdogan banned alcohol from city-owned cafes but also managed to resurrect a failing freshwater supply and clear the trash from the city's cobblestone streets. Rusen Cakir, Erdogan's biographer, stresses the politician's provincial upbringing and working-class values. "Unlike Erbakan, who was a spiritual father," he says, "Erdogan is more familiar, like a brother." Aslihan Dede, 21, a student journalist wearing a Muslim head scarf in Istanbul said last week, "He is one of us." He is also, says Cakir, a pragmatist: "He is Muslim, but he is looking...
...handful of political parties over the years. Born to a working-class family (his father was a sea captain) on Turkey's Black Sea coast, Erdogan moved at age 13 with his family to Istanbul, where he joined the youth wing of an Islamic party founded by Necmettin Erbakan, architect of Turkey's political Islamic movement. Erbakan saw in the young football fanatic an ambitious orator of considerable charm, especially for the estimated 60% of the population under 35. "I have been watching Tayyip Bey for some time," says Aslihan Dede, 21, using a term of respect...
...CONVICTED. NECMETTIN ERBAKAN, 75, former Prime Minister of Turkey and longtime leader of the country's Islamic movement, to 28 months in prison for fraud; in Ankara. Erbakan will likely appeal, and has remained influential despite being barred from politics for five years and having his own Welfare Party banned in 1998 by Turkey's secular-military establishment...