ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has built a career on attacking the elite, secularist tradition reviled by many of his pious supporters. In the heat of political battle, he has even accused secular opponents of allying with terrorists.
But now, the Islamist-rooted AKP party Erdogan created is moving tentatively towards a once-unthinkable coalition with the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), founded in the 1920s by the 'father' of modern Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as guardian of that secularist state order.