![Turkey's PM Erdogan delivers a speech as he campaings ahead of local elections in southeastern city of Diyarbakir Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech as he campaigns ahead of the March 29 local elections in southeastern city of Diyarbakir February 21, 2009. Diyarbakir, the biggest city of Turkey's impoverished Kurdish southeast, is a battleground in local elections seen as a referendum on Erdogan's AK Party. The AK Party is seeking to gain fresh legitimacy after it narrowly escaped a legal attempt by its secularist opponents to ban it for Islamist activities in 2008. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2012/q4/RTXBW4F.jpg/RTXBW4F.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=79BVSlKU)
New 'Party of God' Will Divide Kurdish, Turkish Islamists
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