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Although it has long provided the base for Anglo-American missions policing the northern "no-fly" zone over Iraq, the Turkish government has little enthusiasm for a new confrontation - and the recent election victory of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party has raised concerns in Washington that Turkey may not offer strong support for a U.S. war effort. President Bush will try to change that when he meets the Turkish leader at the White House Tuesday. Erdogan's party has been portrayed as a moderate Islamist group - a characterization the party firmly rejects - and that together with traditional...
...Turkish politician Recep Tayyip Erdogan does not look like a man so dangerous as to have been accused of "inciting religious hatred." His comfortably furnished offices in Ankara look more like a banker's suite than a fundamentalist's den. Impressionist prints adorn the walls, along with a portrait of Turkey's fiercely secular founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. There isn't a prayer bead in sight. "I am a Muslim," the beardless Erdogan, 48, dressed in a pressed blue suit and red tie, said in a recent interview with Time. "But I believe in a secularist state...
...Recep Tayyip Erdogan should not even be in politics. In 1998, the charismatic former mayor of Istanbul was convicted under Turkey's religious-hate-speech statutes for reciting a poem that contained the lines: "Our minarets are our bayonets, our believers are our soldiers." He served four months in jail and was banned from public office for life. Yet last week the clean-cut populist was back. His pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party (AK) drubbed Turkey's secular old guard in the general election, amassing nearly two-thirds of the seats in parliament - albeit with only one-third...
...helping to 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...
When the state security court sent Istanbul's Mayor Recep Tayyip Erdogan to jail in 1998, his pro-Islamic Virtue Party wept crocodile tears. The courts, guardians of the secular Turkish state, had been lying in wait for the charismatic Erdogan. So when he recited a well-known poem at a political rally, it was their chance to pounce. Their verdict was that quoting "minarets are our bayonets"; amounted to using religion to incite hatred - but many believe his greater crime was appealing to voters who wouldn't normally opt for a party with an Islamic reputation. The Virtue Party...