• The Virtue Party, Welfare's successor, now has 16 of the city's 61 parliamentary seats.

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  • Then there is Merve Kavakci, a sleek, Texas-educated computer engineer, one of 17 female candidates running for parliament on the Islamist Virtue party's ticket.

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  • Members of the main opposition group, the mildly pro-Islamist Virtue party, have asked why it took the authorities so long to act against Hizbullah.

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  • Now, fraud charges carrying four-year jail sentences have been clapped on seven senior figures in the Virtue Party, Welfare's successor, including Recai Kutan, the party's leader.

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  • The first bit of bad news was that the mildly Islamist Virtue Party could win nearly a quarter of the votes in the election tentatively scheduled for April.

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  • He is solidly secular, which means he will be wary of giving too long a leash to the Islamic-minded Virtue party, even though it has backed his candidacy in parliament.

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  • Other clerics usually considered hostile to the Americans and their allies, such as Ayatollah Muhammad al-Yaaqubi of the Virtue Party, have declared voting a religious obligation akin to fasting during Ramadan.

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  • The mildly Islamist Virtue party, the main one in opposition, wants a parliamentary investigation into the two last-named but not Mr Ozkan, who is cosy with an influential Islamic fraternity, the Fetullahcis.

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  • Our aim is to make Virtue a party of Turkey and not of this or that ideology which looks as if it is at war with the state.

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  • Anger at the government for its handling of the rescue effort, even though this was carried out in almost impossible conditions, could translate into support for the opposition Islamist party Virtue, especially among the poorer, rural migrants in the area for whom the Islamist message resonates strongly.

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  • Mr Kutan, for his part, disclaims any ambition to lead Virtue after the next party congress.

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  • Treaty proponents argue that problems like this can be mitigated if the United States "has a seat at the table, " by virtue of being a party to LOST.

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  • The perception that Turkey's dismal record on human rights was improving has suffered from new scandals, including the brutal repression of prison riots in December, and the revival of charges against Virtue, the biggest party that dares to air mildly Islamist views.

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  • Virtue, the Islamic party formed when its predecessor, Welfare, was banned in 1998 after being thrown out of office, has spotted that with a European arm around its shoulder it might be better able to insist, for instance, that females should be allowed, despite current laws, to wear headscarves in state-run schools and government offices.

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  • The hallmark of the mid-western Democrats is a virtue usually scorned in their party's primaries: pragmatism.

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  • This is Recai Kutan, leader of Virtue, the new Islamist party that succeeded the one the generals got banned.

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  • Virtue, the Islamic-leaning party from which Mr Erdogan broke away last year to form his Justice and Development Party, did so and was banned.

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  • But seriously, neither party has a monopoly on virtue.

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  • If they do, Abdullah Gul, a calm and popular Virtue deputy, may take up the new party's reins.

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  • That would be the biggest score achieved by Turkey's Islamists, surpassing even the performance of Virtue's banned predecessor, the Welfare Party.

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  • They are becoming (if you want to put it this way) the Moon party and seeking to make a virtue of it.

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  • For example, a few years back, we witnessed a shariah-adherent terrorist organization, Hamas, come to power in Gaza by virtue of being the most organized, disciplined and ruthless party in elections there.

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  • But to credit Mr Anwar himself with all these changes is to forget that, while he may have wanted to change things from the inside, he did not necessarily cover himself in virtue as he built his own career within the ruling party.

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  • The party members who will choose between them are, by virtue of their age (see chart), unrepresentative of voters as a whole.

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  • The fate of talented MPs determined to make a splash depends on several key factors: the status of their party within Parliament, their own status within the party, and their ability to convince colleagues of the virtue of their ideas.

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  • The pro-Islamic Welfare Party was banned in 1998, as was its successor, Virtue, in 2001, in part because of their efforts to end the ban on the headscarf in government offices, parliament and universities.

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  • Mr Kutan and other senior figures in the party owe their jobs to Mr Erbakan, but what about Virtue's 310, 000 members, 305, 000 of whom never joined Welfare, and 80-odd provincial party chiefs, all new appointments?

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  • Fresher in memory is the landslide victory delivered last month by the same voters to the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), New Komeito (NK) coalition, by virtue of which two largely failed former LDP prime ministers, Abe Shinzo (58) as Prime Minister and Aso Taro (72) as Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, are once again at the helm, this time doubling their powers as a team.

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  • Tragically for all Americans, the markets started to correct this egregious rush into the real by virtue of starving overexposed financial institutions of capital, but Bush, supposedly a capitalist in the alleged pro-capitalist party, proceeded to bail out the companies whose errors merited bankruptcy.

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