Imagine a stable, prosperous, secular Muslim democracy in the Middle East. The dream of just such an outcome was the worthiest, albeit least likely, of President Bush's stated aspirations for the war in Iraq.
ISTANBUL: The election on Sunday in Turkey gave a substantial victory in Parliament to the governing Muslim pro-Western party, which promised more moderation and prosperity.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, could find his campaign promise of EU membership derailed by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, who opposes Ankara's entry in the Union.
ANKARA, Turkey: Turkey's foreign minister on Thursday criticized Austria for allowing a wanted Kurdish rebel to fly to northern Iraq instead of being returned to Turkey and accused European allies of undermining the fight against terrorism.
Politicians who seek more rights for Turkey's minority Kurds are set to return to Parliament in elections Sunday for the first time since the 1990s, but their policy goals could meet fierce opposition amid intensified clashes with separatist Kurdish guerrillas.
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Sirnak, Turkey - He may be a Turkish Kurd, but Mehmet Gungor says he has every reason to "hate" the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Three soldiers were killed, and ten were wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a police station in the eastern Turkish province of Tunceli on Monday. Death toll has risen to seven, after this article was published.
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