Word: islamist
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...Even after their leaders agreed to a power sharing arrangement in Mecca last fall, many Fatah officials have done their best to make it fail - perhaps encouraged by the U.S., which has refused to have any relations with a Palestinian government that includes Hamas, and has made isolating the Islamist ruling party a focus of its Middle East policy...
...population lives under the poverty line, some citizens are questioning whether spending an extravagant amount on a blowout party is the best use of government funds - particularly since the country is already funneling millions of dollars into a costly military campaign to prop up a shaky government against Islamist militias in neighboring Somalia...
...importance, especially for the Turkish military, since one of the President's titles-albeit a ceremonial one-is commander-in-chief. The incumbent President, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, is a staunch secularist who was only too willing to wield his veto power to quash legislation and appointments he deemed too Islamist. As the ruling party, the AKP had a constitutional right to appoint one of its own to replace Sezer, and Erdogan came close to nominating himself for the job. In the end, he bowed out in the face of vigorous opposition from the military and the public, and picked...
...clear how the political stalemate will be resolved. The AKP, sounding a note of defiance, hopes to strengthen its majority to the point where it can vote in Gul on its own. The opposition-and the army-is betting that voters will shy away from the perceived Islamist threat and force a coalition of some sort. Both outcomes are possible. But if the AKP returns to office more powerful than before, the army may feel compelled to act again, this time by taking to the streets. Either way, the campaign is likely to further polarize Turkish society and jeopardize...
...neighboring countries face domestic political constraints on their ability to help stabilize Iraq. In Turkey, where the military last week threatened to intervene in a political crisis over the election of an Islamist president, a senior army official recently warned that the Turkish armed forces should intervene against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq. Although all of Iraq's neighbors except Kuwait opposed the invasion of Iraq, many are now deeply worried that growing American domestic opposition to the war will force a precipitous U.S. withdrawal that could exacerbate the chaos...