World & Nation
Abdullah Shah could become the first person executed in the post- Taliban country. But there was no real investigation of his case.
Nov. 24, 2002
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a devout Muslim, won Turkey’s presidency after months of confrontation with the secular establishment.
Aug. 29, 2007
Turkey’s Islamic-oriented ruling party decided to renominate the religious-leaning foreign minister for president.
Aug. 14, 2007
President can be tried, court says
May 19, 2009
Turkey’s government and military have agreed on detailed plans for a possible cross-border operation against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said.
July 7, 2007
Facing a parliamentary roadblock, ruling party candidate bows out.
May 7, 2007
istanbul, turkey -- Reviving a confrontation over the role of religion in public life, Turkey’s ruling party on Monday tried unsuccessfully to have its candidate, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, elected by lawmakers as the country’s president.
Aug. 21, 2007
Thousands lined the streets of the capital Yerevan to protest the first visit by a Turkish leader and to demand that Turkey acknowledge World War I massacres of Armenian civilians as genocide.
Sept. 7, 2008
Turkey’s foreign minister warned Sunday that dividing Iraq along religious or ethnic lines would create chaos, and suggested that neighboring nations would not acquiesce to a partition.
Nov. 6, 2006
Gul will seek the presidency and Erdogan won’t, thus averting a showdown between secularists and Islamists.
April 25, 2007