nebula Posted June 10, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.75 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.93 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted June 10, 2011 Turkey Election Sparks Fears of Islamic Caliphate By Chris Mitchell CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief Friday, June 10, 2011 ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Turkey is in the final days of an election campaign that will affect one of America's biggest Middle East allies for years to come. The elections center around one party and one man -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In Istanbul, it's hard to escape posters of Erdogan, the head of the ruling Islamist party, the AKP. The polls point to a sizable victory for the AKP, and that would be the third straight election win for a party that worked hard to make one of the most secular Muslim nations on earth even more Islamic. "I don't think we're going to go to sharia law, but many people fear we are going more and more to our Middle Eastern roots," Cansin Ilgaz told CBN News. Political adversaries like Gursel Tekin, the No. 2 man in Turkey's main opposition party, say the world is now finally seeing the real Erdogan. Full report Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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