Intriguing: Election in Turkey Clears

Intriguing: Election in Turkey Clears Way for Erdogan to Take Formal Control

Governing party leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a seat in parliament by a huge margin Sunday, a crucial victory that opens the way for him to become prime minister and strengthens his hand in uniting the government behind deployment of U.S. troops for an Iraq war.

And especially interesting is the fact is that that Erdogan's party, the Justice and Development Party, is an Islamic-oriented political movement, which demostrates that 1) those whose religion is Islam can function in a democratic civil society, and 2) an Islamically-oriented political party can work in alliance with the United States.

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