People carry the coffin of the Turkey’s former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan during a funeral prayer in Ankara March 1, 2011. Erbakan, the founder of Turkey’s modern Islamist movement, died of heart failure on Sunday at the age of 85.? Read more » REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Thousands gather for Turkish Islamist leader’s funeral
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) stands next to the coffin of former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan during his funeral in Istanbul March 1, 2011. Erbakan, the founder of Turkey’s modern Islamist movement, died of heart failure on Sunday at the age of 85.? Read more » REUTERS/Osman Orsal
Necmettin Erbakan obituary
Influential Islamist politician who became Turkish prime minister
A shrewd politician, with a folksy turn of phrase, Necmettin Erbakan led Turkish Islamism for more than four decades during which the movement grew from a marginal group to become the mainstream in Turkish politics, effectively supplanting the old centre-right and the centre-left. Yet he did not share in the eventual triumph of Turkish Islamism, having been displaced by younger, more modern leaders.
Farewell to a legendary politician
Feb. 28 and Erbakan
People hold portraits of Turkey’s former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan during his funeral in Istanbul March 1, 2011. Erbakan, the founder of Turkey’s modern Islamist movement, died of heart failure on Sunday at the age of 85.? Read more » REUTERS/Osman Orsal
Necmettin Erbakan
Erbakan?s contributions to Turkish politics
Erbakan?s death and the evolution of a political Islamic movement
The end of an era
Turkey holds massive funeral for ex-Islamic PM
Erbakan?s vision
Turkey yesterday bid its last farewell to former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan, who left his mark on Turkish politics despite the fact that his parties were constantly banned and he faced many military interventions throughout his long political career. There is agreement that Erbakan was a charismatic political leader who laid the foundations of today?s Turkey with his vision and managed to keep his movement away from violence
Women watch the funeral of Turkey’s former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan from the windows of an apartment in Istanbul March 1, 2011. Erbakan, the founder of Turkey’s modern Islamist movement, died of heart failure on Sunday at the age of 85.? Read more » REUTERS/Murad Sezer
Necmettin Erbakan Album 1
His patriotism was never questioned and the doors he opened with his his political ascendancy that changed the single dimentional and militarily backed Turkish democratic tradition eventually finding a new voice in AK Party/Justice and Development Party rule that is on its third election victory in 2011 elections.
Necmettin Erbakan Album 2
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