Robert Siegel talks to Chris Nuttal (NUT-all) in Ankara (AHN-ka-ra), Turkey about the prospects for the Islamist Welfare Party, which the country's president has given a mandate to form a government. Welfare leader Necmettin Erbakan (NEDG-met-een UR-ba-kan) has said he would try to return the state to Islamic principles, a stance that goes against the secular nature of the modern Turkish state. The test for the Welfare Party will be whether it can establish a coalition with other parties to maintain its power.
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