Word: nationalists
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...Later that night, she gets ready for an antigovernment rally in Istanbul, donning a Halloween-style mask of the mustachioed Turkish founder. "I want to see the world through his eyes," she says. Ozkan, like most secularists, is backing the CHP, which was founded by Ataturk; others support the Nationalist Movement Party, or MHP, though neither has a chance of winning...
...values of Erdogan and Gul are reassuring: "We feel more comfortable with them." How such sentiments will play out at the polls remains unclear. Public opinion surveys put support for the AKP at 35-42% vs. 18-25% for the CHP and 15-25% for the MHP, an overtly nationalist party that has benefited from Turkish anger over the Iraq war, fears of Kurdish separatism, and frustration over resistance to Turkish membership of the E.U. The two opposition parties have not ruled out forming a coalition in order to replace the AKP - if they get the votes...
...irony is that the policies of the Islamic AKP are significantly more pro-Western than those promised by its secularist and nationalist rivals. A coalition of the MHP and the CHP may keep head scarves out of the presidential mansion, but it might also put the brakes on European-inspired democratic and economic policies, jeopardize talks to join the E.U., and lead to a clampdown on Turkey's Kurdish minorities. The AKP, if elected, vows to press ahead with additional requirements of E.U. accession, whether or not the Europeans are willing to let Turkey join. The party also promises...
...woes are especially galling because when he became Prime Minister last September, it seemed he could do no wrong. Although known as a staunch nationalist, his first act was to visit Beijing and Seoul, patching up strained relations with Japan's key trading partners. But foreign-policy coups were soon overshadowed by a perception that Abe's domestic agenda was lacking. While he spoke of boosting Japan's role abroad and revising the country's pacifist constitution, the public was focused on bread-and-butter economic issues. "When Abe talks about the constitution, people think, 'What about my salary?'" says...
...farm boy from the state of Uttar Pradesh in northeast India who grew up to be Prime Minister. Chandra Shekhar was known by both supporters and detractors as a political firebrand, an idealistic, secular nationalist who could be blunt to a fault. Indira Gandhi jailed him, along with many other of her outspoken political opponents, during a tumultuous period in the mid-1970s. Shekhar became Prime Minister in 1990, but holding only a slim majority in a fractious coalition, he served just seven months before resigning amid charges that his government was spying on political rival Rajiv Gandhi. Shekhar died...