And Turkey's Prime Minister indicated he might not attend a mid-April nuclear energy summit in Washington hosted by President Obama.

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Since the early 1950s, only three prime ministers have come from opposition parties, all leading brief coalition governments in the mid 1990s.

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And Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan indicated he might not attend a mid-April nuclear energy summit in Washington hosted by President Obama.

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In opinion polls in mid June, the prime minister's popularity sank below 20% after enjoying a brief lift following a fund-raising scandal that forced the DPJ's leader to resign.

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Or that, in mid-1991, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi would be assassinated?

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Italians responded heroically in the mid-1990s when the then prime minister, Romano Prodi, called for sacrifices to clean up the national accounts to prepare for euro membership.

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