Balkans: July 20, 2001

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Exit virtue Party, enter Prosperity Party. 51 Turkish Islamists (former members of now-outlawed Virtue Party) announced they have formed the Prosperity Party. Commentators say the Prosperity Party will be a more hard-line Turkish Islamist political group. Moderate Islamists may be looking to former Istanbul mayor, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to form his own political party.

 

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