Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's new opposition leader purged key hardline secularists and set a tentative reformist course Sunday in a bid to regain ground lost to an AK Party government critics accuse of secretly pursuing an Islamic state.
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
ANKARA - The veteran leader of Turkey's main opposition party resigned on Monday, saying he was the victim of a government conspiracy following the release of an video purporting to show him and a woman in a bedroom.
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
July 2, 2009 Anwar Ibrahim’s Appeal rejected Hafiz Yatim@ www.malaysiakini.com Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim suffered a setback when the Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal for his sodomy trial to be heard at the Sessions Court instead of the High Court. This was likely to be his final bid to have his sodomy trial held in the lower court, ending a long wrangle over where the case should be heard. Amid widespread doubts over the standards of Malaysia’s judiciary, Anwar’s s
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