Word: erdogan
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...shape a government. Apart from what's left of the D.S.P., they include its right-wing coalition partners, the Nationalist Action Party and the Motherland Party. On the opposition side are the center-right True Path Party and Justice and Development, led by former Istanbul Mayor Recep Tayyip Erdogan and suspected by the military of having a worrying Islamist agenda. With Turkey in such a political and economic mess, and its stability resting on the NATO-E.U.-IMF tripod, Cem's new movement appears well placed to attract the talent necessary to lead the country into the post-Ecevit...
...Erdogan's turn to weep tears, but of joy. In 1999 he was released after serving four months of a 10-month sentence. On June 22 Turkey's Constitutional Court banned the Virtue Party for being a "focal point of anti-secular"; activities, a development that leaves Erdogan, 47, in perfect position to lead a large number of rebel M.P.s, tired of the autocratic leadership of the disbanded Virtue Party, into a new party of their...
...Opinion surveys suggest that an Erdogan-led party - one that would battle corruption and value individual liberties above the needs of the state - would stand a good chance at the polls. Turkey's economic crisis has cut deep, and many of those hurt by unemployment and rising prices are looking for someone to voice their woes. Some argue that getting the buses to run on time and water from the reservoirs to the taps in a city like Istanbul, home to nearly a fifth of the Turkish population, is good training for running the country at large. Erdogan was born...
...Erdogan confronts one major obstacle, though. Despite his release from jail, he faces a five-year ban from holding political office. Turkey's Minister of Justice has already suggested that any new party founded by Erdogan cannot be legally established. The mayor will contest and even defy the ban, hoping that parliament will keep its pledge to make the amendments to the constitution that would get him off the hook. But he may well have to lead from the wings, not the best spot from which to shift the Islamic movement into the political center...
...These days Erdogan chooses his words carefully. He no longer talks of minarets and bayonets but of "making moral values a pillar of modern administration."; The Islamic rhetoric of seven years ago is gone. He presents demands, like permission for women to wear Islamic headscarves at universities, not as threats to the secular state but as basic rights. Even so, a Turkish establishment that includes the army still suspects his moderation is just fa?ade. Other critics say he's too provincial to reform Turkey and lead it into the E.U. His reply, still to be tested, is that...