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The few previous examples were in countries with Muslim majorities: Tansu Ciller was prime minister of Turkey in the 1990s, and Atifete Jahjaga was president of Kosovo from 2011 to 2016.

Among the group’s other alleged or actual targets were Turkish soldiers, the Justice Ministry, onetime Prime Minister Tansu Ciller, and the heir to one of Turkey’s richest families, who was murdered alongside a business partner and a secretary by DHKP-C extremists in Toyota’s Istanbul headquarters in 1996.

The exhumation came the same day that Tansu Ciller, a former prime minister, told prosecutors investigating a 1997 political-military crisis that she had tried unsuccessfully to remove military commanders during events that led to the ousting of Necmettin Erbakan, Turkey's first Islamist prime minister.

Sten′ciller, one who does stencil-work; Sten′cilling, a method of printing letters or designs, the pattern cut out on a thin plate, and brushed over so as to mark the surface below.

But Erbakan and Ciller quickly set about trying to reassure everyone that there is nothing to fear from an Islamist-led government.