Article: TURKEY - May 6 - Turkey's Gul Withdraws Candidacy.

Turkey's FM Abdullah Gul, withdraws his nomination for the post of President after failing to win parliamentary backing. The withdrawal came as centrist political parties began regrouping in a bid to present a united front against the Islamist-rooted government in forthcoming elections that are widely seen as the best way to resolve deep divisions between the administration and the secular opposition. Gul, whose nomination initiated Turkey's worst political crisis in a decade, said there was no prospect of his being confirmed as President by the bitterly divided parliament. The move is unlikely to bring an immediate end to the crisis. But it could bring forward the general ...

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