IRI, a state holding company, should be converted into a development agency for the impoverished south, they say.

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Besides, during qualitative evaluation, audiences showed a great interest for IRI methodology.

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IRI, a state holding corporation, with 36.5%.

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Last summer, prosecutors targeted NDI, IRI and other organizations as part of a politically charged probe into foreign financing of non-governmental organizations in Egypt, where such funding must be government-approved.

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But Bruno Kaufmann, president of IRI-E, says e-voting is not a means to speed up the democratic process.

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"I know for a fact that two of the people who died were Turks, " Iri added.

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"My house is two kilometers (about a mile and a quarter) away from the border ... but the blast was powerful enough that we heard it, " Mahmut Iri, the mayor of the Turkish border town of Cilvegozu, said in a phone call with CNN.

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