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Failed coup opened "new door of compromise" in Turkish politics - opposition leader

By Reuters
August 08, 2016

ISTANBUL: Turkey´s failed coup has opened a "new door of compromise" in politics, the leader of the main secularist opposition told a huge cross-party rally on Sunday, saying politics must now be kept out of the mosques, courthouses and barracks.

"There is a new Turkey after July 15," Kilicdaroglu told more than a million people, many of them supporters of the ruling AK Party, gathered at a parade ground in Istanbul for a "Democracy and Martyrs´ Rally".