On A rainy Sunday evening Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdo-gan, was delivering a fiery speech full of references to the glories of Islam and Turkey's Ottoman past when a woman on a stretcher was lifted to the podium. He knelt down, took her hand and offered comfort. "Allahu akbar [Allah is great]," she screamed. A sea of supporters, waving Palestinian and Turkish flags, went wild. These scenes at a recent rally in Istanbul have been repeated across Turkey as Mr Er-dogan campaigns to become the country's first popularly elected president.
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