Necmettin Erbakan, Turkey's first Islamist PM, dies

[Gerald]

Turkey's first Islamist prime minister, Necmettin Erbakan, has died at the age of 85, one of his aides has said.

Mr Erbakan served only a year as prime minister before he was forced to stand down in 1997 by Turkey's staunchly secular military.

His Islamist Welfare Party was banned in 1998, while Mr Erbakan was barred from politics for five years for violating the constitution.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12590773

Note: 27 February 2011 Last updated at 11:42 GM

[The Third Man]

I don't know, but is he the poster boy for the ugly which democracy can be? Or do we have to wait?

[Gerald]

The real democracy that we in the West has, it may be we'll wait, if that was what you meant..