Turkey (MNN) -- This Sunday, Turkey, still in the early days of democracy, goes to the polls. IN Network's Rody Rodeheaver: "The general election is not to elect the president, but it is to elect the members of parliament--550 of them. Then, once that new government is constituted, then they, in turn, will elect a president." The land is of huge strategic importance to the European Union, Iran, Iraq and Syria. There are underlying tensions over which way Turkey's new government will go. Rodeheaver says, "The prayer here is that the country would not head toward becoming an Islamic state. There have been some tensions because of that and fears that might have been some sort of secret agenda in the original Parliament here, in their choosing of a president." Recent events indicating anti-Christian sentiment is rising is just one more reason their team and other believers need prayer support.

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