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The constitutional court in Turkey has annulled last Friday's parliamentary vote to elect a new president. The only candidate, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, failed to win the required majority after a boycott by secularist opposition parties.

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ListenUP
May 2, 2007, 9:30 a.m.
Now you're talking! I was hoping that we would be able to finally drop kick this turkey. "Mission accomplished" indeed. Bye bye W, bye bye.......... what?.............awwww crap.
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WCFIELDS
May 2, 2007, 11:38 a.m.
"On Sunday, hundreds of thousands of people rallied in Istanbul in support of secularism."
Apparently there are a few hundred thousand intelligent people in Turkey.
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Macondo
May 2, 2007, 11:39 a.m.
The good news is the potentially non secularist candidate was stopped by legal ways (No quorum.)
The bad news is the high number of votes he obtained, well above half of the parliament.
This is going to be similar to an other very religious guy who became president by electoral votes, after being selected once by the vote of the Supreme Court.
Bad bad anyway :-(
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OnlyTheTruth
May 2, 2007, 11:48 a.m.
We worry that Turkey might elect a religious extremist while we are busy packing our own government with the same thing. What hypocrisy!
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AbuAmirah
May 2, 2007, 2:46 p.m.
Bastards
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