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Tansu Çiller, Prime Minister of Turkey, 1993-1995, and active politician. Biographies, news stories and background information on Tansu Ciller.
Ambition for All Seasons
An article from the March 1999 Middle East Review of International Affairs. "As Turkey prepares for its coming elections, she is a key powerbroker for forming the next government. Yet she has constantly walked the edge of disaster, through both her political decisions and personal choices."
Ciller, Tansu
A brief biography of Tansu Ciller.
Ciller, Tansu
Biography from the Encyclopedia Britannica's Year in Review, 1994. "On June 25, 1993, she officially became Turkey's first woman prime minister and, perhaps even more noteworthy, the first female without a family political connection to head an Islamic country."
Tansu Ciller Ready to Face European Union, Turkish Voters
James M. Dorsey in Washington Report on Middle East Affairs reports that "Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller insists that she will govern Turkey for as long as it takes her to transform it into a modern, prosperous European state."
Tansu Ciller to take over as Turkey's PM
Associated Press report on "pro-West" Tansu Ciller's move to the premiership, June 1997.
Tansu Ciller
From the online Encyclopaedia of the Orient, a profile of Tansu Ciller with a color photo.
Turkish Sea Change
Includes Audio. Charlayne Hunter-Gault interviews Turkey's foreign minister, Tansu Ciller, on the Kurdish crisis, 1996.

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