FILE PHOTO 20OCT97 - Turkey's former Islamist prime minister Necmettin Erbakan and leader of Islamist Welfare Party gestures in a news conference in Istanbul in this October 20, 1997 file photo. Turkey's constitutional court outlawed the main opposition Islamist party in a ruling January 16, charging the party with sedition, and banned Erbakhan from political leadership for five years.

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