The debate could determine the fate of the Islamic-led Government or even stir a coup.
The two countries' armies were working together even under the Islamic-led Government, and now their Governments have become astonishingly close.
Leftist prisoners abandoned their 69-day-old hunger strike today under a deal that provided the strikers and the new Islamic-led Government with the grist for claims of victory.
When Turkey's new Islamic-led Government came to power last month, the Clinton Administration anticipated no sharp shifts in Ankara's generally pro-American foreign policies.
Thousands of Turks, most of them women, marched through the streets of Ankara today in the first major public protest against the policies of the Islamic-led Government.
That election produced an Islamic-led Government that so upset secularist military commanders that they forced it from office after one year.
Angered by what it views as efforts to impose a form of religious fundamentalism in Turkey, the military command here has issued a sharp reprimand to the Islamic-led Government.
With modern Turkey's first Islamic-led Government facing its first crisis, the incident outside the prison today was a small one.
For advice on the program, Mr. Erbakan will also be listening closely to Turkey's own military, which is known to be unhappy with the Islamic-led Government.
The military, which opposes any increase in the role of religion in public life, orchestrated a campaign that led to the collapse of the last Islamic-led Government in 1997.
