"We fully expect that there will be attempts at cheating," said Ayşe Erdem, the HDP's co-leader in Istanbul and an ethnic Turk.
At the local headquarters of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) party, a grey slab engraved with Ataturk's aphorism "Happy is he who calls himself a Turk" gathers dust under a stairwell.
The average Turk knows even less about his country's past treatment of the Armenians, for example, than the average Englishman knows about his country's past deeds in Ireland.
Yet she made friends with a literary young turk, Ezra Pound, and grabbed hold of new ideas such as psychoanalysis.
MOST Turkish schoolchildren take part in a weekly flag ceremony during which they recite a patriotic chant ending, "Happy is he who calls himself a Turk".
More controversially still, it suggests replacing the term "Turk" with a more inclusive word to cover all ethnicities and faiths, such as "Turkiyeli"—"of Turkey".It was more than some Turks could bear.
But the debacle of his short tenure probably explained why the prospect of Mr Beazley's steady hand returning to the helm held more allure for his colleagues than the temptation of installing another young Turk.
Clegg – here's his text – is so mixed-race (Dutch, German, Russian, Brit) that he makes Boris (Turk, German, English, Martian) look like a local.
But the evidence of the government's genocidal intent is overwhelming, coming as it does from appalled German and Italian diplomats and neutral Americans, to whom the Young Turk leaders admitted that they were going to eliminate "the Armenian problem" by eliminating the Armenians.
The truth is most of the Australian seafood industry is highly sustainable... but they are still able to make these claims without any recourse," Turk said.
An Istanbul court told the newly privatised service provider, Turk Telekom, to ban access to YouTube after it carried a video-clip, submitted by a user with a Greek-sounding name, portraying Turkey's state founder, Kemal Ataturk, as a boastful, grotesque-looking homosexual.
