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| North Korea's girl with seven names still feels hunted |
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 By Bill Tarrant UBUD, Indonesia (Reuters) - The girl with seven names is finding it hard these days to contact relatives in Stalinist North Korea on the underground mobile phone link defectors have used for years. Hyeonseo Lee is also increasingly worried about her personal security since the July publication of the best-selling memoir about her escape from North Korea, "The Girl with Seven Names". Defectors living in South Korea contact relatives in the North through Chinese mobile phones that are smuggled across the border.
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| China to prosecute former Xinjiang editor who queried party line |
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| China will prosecute the former editor-in-chief of the official Communist Party publication in the violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang on charges of corruption after he expressed doubt about government policies, the paper said on Monday. Hundreds have died in the last few years in Xinjiang unrest blamed by the government on Islamist militants. China denies any such repression takes place. |
| Turkish PM calls for new constitution after election victory |
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 ANKARA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called on Turkey's political parties to come together and agree a new constitution after his ruling AK Party regained its parliamentary majority at a general election on Sunday. "I'm calling on all parties entering parliament to form a new civilian national constitution," he said in a balcony speech to thousands of AKP supporters at the party headquarters in Ankara, as fireworks lit the sky. "Let's work together towards a Turkey where conflict, tension and polarisation are non-existent and everyone salutes each other in peace. ...
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| Turkey's Erdogan says election outcome was a vote for stability |
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 ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday's election result, in which the AK Party he founded regained its majority, showed that the nation had chosen to protect an environment of stability and confidence. Erdogan also said in an emailed statement that the most important message from the result was for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group that "violence, threats and bloodshed cannot coexist with democracy and the rule of law. ...
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| Turkey returns to single-party rule in boost for Erdogan |
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 By Ercan Gurses and Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's Islamist-rooted AK Party swept to an unexpected victory in elections on Sunday, returning the country to single-party rule in an outcome that will boost the power of President Tayyip Erdogan but may sharpen deep social divisions. Erdogan said the outcome was a vote for stability, and a message to Kurdish insurgents in the country's restive southeast that violence could not coexist with democracy. Prime Minister and AKP leader Ahmet Davutoglu tweeted simply "Elhamdulillah" (Thanks be to god), before emerging from his family home in the central Anatolian city of Konya to briefly address crowds of cheering supporters.
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