Gul renominated for presidency
Turkey’s Islamic-oriented ruling party decided to renominate the religious-leaning foreign minister for president.
When Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan proposed Abdullah Gul as his party’s candidate earlier this year, opposition groups accused Gul of wanting to scrap the secular traditions of the predominantly Muslim but officially secular nation.
Opposition lawmakers boycotted the previous balloting in parliament for president, leading Turkey’s top court to annul the vote for lack of a quorum and sparking early elections that Erdogan’s party won last month.
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