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Born into a working-class family on Turkey's Black Sea coast, Erdogan moved at age 13 to Istanbul, where he joined the youth wing of a party founded by Necmettin Erbakan, architect of Turkey's political Islamic movement. Erbakan, who later briefly became Prime Minister, saw in the tall young soccer fanatic an ambitious orator of considerable charm...
...handful of political parties over the years. Born to a working-class family (his father was a sea captain) on Turkey's Black Sea coast, Erdogan moved at age 13 with his family to Istanbul, where he joined the youth wing of an Islamic party founded by Necmettin Erbakan, architect of Turkey's political Islamic movement. Erbakan saw in the young football fanatic an ambitious orator of considerable charm, especially for the estimated 60% of the population under 35. "I have been watching Tayyip Bey for some time," says Aslihan Dede, 21, using a term of respect...
...CONVICTED. NECMETTIN ERBAKAN, 75, former Prime Minister of Turkey and longtime leader of the country's Islamic movement, to 28 months in prison for fraud; in Ankara. Erbakan will likely appeal, and has remained influential despite being barred from politics for five years and having his own Welfare Party banned in 1998 by Turkey's secular-military establishment...
...NECMETTIN ERBAKAN Turkish Premier flouts West to visit Libya only to get verbal assault from Muammar Gaddafi...
Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan knew he would pique the U.S. when for his first official trip abroad he chose Iran. Acting Secretary of State Peter Tarnoff telephoned Ankara to warn him that he was defying Washington's campaign to isolate Tehran for its sponsorship of international terrorism. Just a week before, President Clinton had signed with great fanfare a new sanctions bill to curb major investments in Iran and its fellow rogue state Libya. But Erbakan went to Tehran, and last week he upped the affront by endorsing a contract to buy $23 billion worth of Iranian...