Turks Take to Streets to Demonstrate; Stock Market and Lira Hit

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TIMESONLINE: Hundreds of thousands of secularist Turks took to the streets for the second time in two weeks yesterday after a dramatic intervention by the military in an attempt to stop Abdullah Gul becoming the first Turkish President with an Islamist past.

Demonstrators in Istanbul carried blood-red national flags and posters of Kemal Atatürk, the founder of a secular Turkey. Banners read: “Sharia (Islamic law) shall not rise to the Presidential Palace.” Protesters and military see red as Islamist heads for presidency (Read on) by Suna Erdem in Istanbul

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Mark Alexander