Word: erbekan
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...especially since it did not enjoy the support of the traditionally secular military. However, the recent government's paralysis in the face of high inflation, crippling debt and rising unemployment has prompted middle-class Turks to turn to Refah as an alternative to the secular government. Wilde reports that Erbekan might have trouble sticking by the rules of democracy and secularism when he contends, inevitably, with the more extreme members of his party. "Whatever Erkeban does," adds Wilde, "the feeling in Turkey is that is it bound to be better than the disastrous government that came before." Chris McKenna
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