Abdullah Gul
Aug 29 2007, Balbhadra Rana

The election of AKP sponsored Abdullah Gul as the new Turkish president has driven the final nail into the coffin of the Turkish army’s non-military clout in the country. It has described the AKP, the progressive Islamist party, as “centres of evil”...

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