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...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 he pulled off a remarkable diplomatic coup by moving toward membership, even if it's on a slower timetable than he would have liked. "If you'd asked me just two weeks ago whether...
TURKEY Smoothing the Way Parliament amended the constitution to allow the leader of the pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party, which won last month's general election, to run for parliament and thus become Prime Minister. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been banned from running since his 1998 criminal conviction for reciting a poem that compared minarets to bayonets, which authorities said incited religious hatred. Erdogan, who has run Turkey through deputies, could enter parliament in a special election in February. President Ahmet Necdet Sezer must approve the change. See Also: Turkey in Time...
...cross that bridge when we come to it. But I do believe the U.S. would not mind going through the UN. Chairman Erdogan will also meet [UN Secretary General] Kofi Annan on Tuesday night, where these questions will be discussed. After he has held discussions at the Pentagon, the White House and with the UN, we will make our own analysis and act in the best interests of a peaceful world...
...TIME: What concerns will Chairman Erdogan bring to the White House...
...TIME: Yet the very fact that Chairman Erdogan as head of the party that won the election can't be made prime minister [on the basis of a law forbidding religious expression in politics] suggests there are some limits on Turkey's democracy...