Wishful Thinking :
The future of the secularist CHP, meanwhile, is unclear. After the huge secularist rallies this spring, almost all analysts expected it to increase its share of the vote. It has failed to do so, losing for the fifth consecutive time under its leader Deniz Baykal. That result will come as a real shock to Gulten Ozturk, a civil servant in charge of one of the ballot boxes at a high school in the chic and resolutely secularist Istanbul district of Nisantasi. “CHP will win this election,” she said. “Just look how many people have turned out.” — The Indepedent, 23 July 2007
Reality : A more democratic (In šaʾ Allāh), and a more conservative (for sure) Turkey.
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