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 | | Despite a dramatic reversal in parliament on 1 March, the Turkish ruling party, under acute pressure from the United States, seems likely to push for a second vote that, if successful, will bring the country around in direct US aid and secure future Turkish influence in the Kurdish northern region of Iraq. |
 | | THE leader of the Justice and Development party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP), Recep Tayyip Erdogan, made an unusual suggestion to President George Bush in December. |
 | | After the AKP's election victory in November, he proposed that if the European Union failed to set a date for entry talks, Turkey should be admitted to Nafta, the free-trade area linking the US, Canada and Mexico (1). |
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