Secular Turks fear that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has a secret agenda to impose Islamic law on Turkey.
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reuters) -- Turkey's financial markets tumbled amid political instability triggered by a court challenge to the presidential election process and a mass demonstration against the ruling party.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- The possibility of an observant Muslim president is pitting Turkey's deeply secular military and civilian establishment against its religiously oriented ruling party in a fundamental struggle over national identity.
Powerful generals and secularist demonstrators are seeking to set limits to the powers of Turkey's Islamist-rooted government, but there appears little appetite for the coups that marked the country's troubled past.
NEW YORK (Dow Jones) -- Turkey's stocks and currency fell sharply Monday, as the country's political crisis deepened after the military threatened to intervene in the presidential elections to protect secular values, and the Islamist government came under pressure to call early general elections.
Turkey's Constitutional Court is set to review Monday the legitimacy of a presidential vote that has led to a political crisis in the Muslim majority but secular country.
The presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan set aside their past differences at their meeting in Turkey Monday, pledging to work jointly against terrorism.
April 30 (Bloomberg) -- The risk of owning Turkey's bonds rose the most in 10 months after the army threatened to intervene should an Islamist presidential candidate be elected, according to traders of credit-default swaps.
Turkey's premier was under growing pressure yesterday to call a general election to end a political crisis that saw financial markets tumble and sharp exchanges between the government and opposition leaders.
Turkey's prime minister appealed for calm and national unity last night amid a political crisis sparked by the country's most serious clash between the military and an elected government for a decade.