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Monday, May 10, 2010

AKP OPPOSITION LEADER FORCED TO RESIGN OVER SEX-TAPE

TURKEY'S ISLAMISTS NOW USING BLACKMAIL ON POLITICAL OPPONENTS:

The leader of Turkey's principal opposition party has resigned following the circulation of a video purporting to show him having an affair.

The video allegedly shows Deniz Baykal, who led the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP), in a bedroom with a female CHP politician.

Mr Baykal claimed he was a victim of a government-orchestrated plot.

His party is currently opposing constitutional reforms proposed by the governing AK Party.

Mr Baykal resigned during a news conference on Monday, during which he said such videos could not be aired without the knowledge of the government.

"This is not a sex tape, this is a conspiracy," he said.

TURKEY - UNDER THE THUMB OF THE RULING AKP, AN ISLAMIST PARTY - IS NOW MORE ALIGNED TO IRAN AND SYRIA THAN TO EUROPE AND THE WEST, AND SHOULD BE THROWN OUT OF NATO.

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