Bush Pledges Support for Turkey's Erdogan.

NPR.org, November 5, 2007 - President Bush has promised new support for Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his struggle to contain Kurdish rebels who have been using northern Iraq as a base to stage attacks on Turkish targets.

"He says his party is not Islamist; it's conservative democrat," says Bulent Aliriza, the director of the Turkey Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Opponents say he's a fundamentalist who will ultimately try to turn Turkey to sharia (Muslim religious) law."

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