ANKARA (Reuters) - In a farewell speech to supporters of his AK Party, Turkish president-elect Tayyip Erdogan said its mission to reshape the nation would go on after he left party politics and took office as head of state.
Erdogan's supporters see him as a hero, restoring religious values to public life long dominated by the secular ideals of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk who founded the modern republic in 1923. Critics, including Western-facing, secular Turks, fear an increasingly authoritarian state.
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