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| | Turkey, Islamist Politics, Green Money (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | It had won just slightly over one-third of the vote, but, because only one other party — the center-left Republican People's Party (Cumhuriyetci Halk Partisi) -- managed to surpass the 10 percent threshold necessary to enter the Turkish Grand National Assembly, the AKP took 66 percent of the seats. |
 | | His former boss, Necmettin Erbakan, made that mistake; as leader of the Islamist Refah (Welfare) Party, Erbakan presided over a coalition government from July, 1996, to June, 1997, which began reversing Atatürkist domestic and foreign policies — until the military forced his resignation. |
 | | They are partially correct, according to Ilhan Kesici, a well-known economist and former Undersecretary at the State Planning Organization. |
| www.proconservative.net /PCVol7Is040RubinIslamistPoliticsTurkey.shtml (5438 words) |
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