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VIRGINIA CHA, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Thanks for joining us for the start of a new week of CNN Student News. I'm Virginia Cha. Seeing red: Thousands of people take to the streets of Istanbul to protest against Turkey's lone presidential candidate. Discussing defense: Plans are being finalized for a conference later this week where Iraq's security is the top priority on the agenda. And thinking machines: Scientists in South Korea want to give robots some personality and let them decide for themselves how they feel about it.

First Up: Protests in Turkey

CHA: First up today, a controversial presidential candidate in Turkey. When it's time to elect a new president of the United States, you probably already know two candidates get most of the votes. But that's not the case in other countries. Turkey is in the process of selecting its new president right now, but there's only one name on the ballot, and his candidacy is causing a huge stir, including stern warnings from Turkey's military and protests by hundreds of thousands of people. Cal Perry has more on the tense situation.

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CAL PERRY, CNN REPORTER: It's a country split between its majority population and its secular history. Tension in Turkey gave way to a sea of red on Sunday, with a million people united in the streets for a secular Turkey. Their message, unified, clear and loud: Turkey is secular and will remain secular.

The lead-up to the protest has been a volley of political rhetoric, a constitutional challenge from the opposition and stark warnings from the Turkish military, which is being taken very seriously by a population that has seen the military step in and take power from the government four times in its national history.

Friday, the Parliament voted for Turkey's next President: the only candidate, foreign minister Abdullah Gul, a prominent member of the Islamist based AK party. Opposition members largely boycotted the vote and challenged its validity to the highest court in Turkey. Gul failed to get the necessary votes. Later the same day, the military put out a stark and perhaps ominous statement saying, "The Turkish armed forces are watching this situation with concern." Adding, "The Turkish armed forces is one of the sites in this debate, and when necessary they will display their attitudes and actions very clearly."

But this is a country caught in a difficult position: trying to show its neighbors it belongs as part of the European Union, the military and population balancing a democratic system against its history and its desired national image. On Saturday, the European Union warned against military intervention. Olli Rehn, the EU enlargement commissioner, said this election was a "test case" and warned the military to stay out of the process.

All of which has lead ultimately to this, the second massive show of support for a secular government in less than a month. With a constitutional decision pending, a pivotal vote in Parliament scheduled for Wednesday and its military primed for a potential coup, Turkey is a nation at a crossroads, and the direction taken could change the face of a continent forever. Cal Perry, CNN, London.

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Word to the Wise

CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS: A Word to the Wise...

secular: (adjective) not connected with religion

Source: www.dictionary.com

The Fight For Iraq

CHA: More than 70 suspected members of al Qaeda in Iraq are in custody after being arrested in raids carried out Sunday by U.S. and Iraqi troops. A military spokesman says the operation and others like it continue to chip away at the terrorist network. The raids came a day after a suicide bombing in the city of Karbala that killed 75 people and injured 175 others. Hugh Riminton has more on the deadly blast.

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HUGH RIMINTON, CNN REPORTER: It was approaching nightfall, half an hour before evening prayers at one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam. A suicide car bomber pulled up at a checkpoint. It was as close as he could get to the Shrine of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the prophet Mohammed. The explosion left sacred ground strewn with the bodies of the dead and the dying.

It was two weeks to the day since the last car bombing here killed 44 people and injured scores more. This time, local hospitals were unable to cope with the casualties. Some of the injured were ferried to neighboring provinces.

Karbala suffered one of the first post-invasion sectarian atrocities: more than a hundred killed in March 2004, when an explosion ripped through pilgrims during Ashura, the holiest of the Shia festivals.

It was the bombing of another sacred Shia site, the Golden Mosque at Samarra, north of Baghdad in February last year, that sparked Iraq's full-throttle descent into a sectarian civil war.

Since then, thousands have died across Iraq, hundreds of thousands have fled their homes, entire towns have changed hands between Sunni and Shia. Where Sunni-aligned terror groups favor massive suicide bomb attacks, the Shia militias strike back with death squads, every night leaving bodies to be found across the streets of the major towns.

This latest explosion came just hours after radical Shia cleric and militia leader, Muqtada al-Sadr taunted U.S. President George W. Bush in a letter read to the Iraqi Parliament. "You say there will be chaos if America leaves," he said. "How could it be worse than the chaos now." Hugh Riminton, CNN, Baghdad.

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The Fight For Iraq

CHA: Iraq's foreign minister sided with President Bush yesterday, criticizing the U.S. congress for passing a bill that sets timetables for pulling troops out of Iraq. He also discussed a summit on Iraqi security that's taking place later this week in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh. He said the conference could be a turning point for Iraqi security and politics in the region.

Shoutout

AZUZ: Time for the Shoutout! What does DNA stand for? If you think you know it, shout it out! Is it: A) Dual neuropathic activity, B) Diminution accelerando, C) Drafting near an apex or D) Deoxyribonucleic acid? You've got three seconds -- GO! DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is considered the basic building block of life. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!

Man's Next Best Friend?

CHA: Have you ever dreamed about having a robot, a machine that you can tell how to act and what to do? Well what if your mechanical friend could think and feel on its own? Sounds like something out of a movie, right? James MacDonald explains how South Korean scientists are working on making intelligent robots a reality.

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JAMES MACDONALD, CNN REPORTER: This walking gearbox pretty much does what he's told. A sophisticated machine, but not much personality. Designing a truly intelligent robot, one that can think and feel on its own, is the holy grail for robotics scientists. And at this South Korean lab, they believe they're creating nothing less than the origin of artificial species. Charles Darwin 2.0.

KIM JONG-HWAN, ROBITICS EXPERT: Evolutionary concepts have been used in engineering. So motivated by Charles Darwin, I thought of artificial genomes for robots.

MACDONALD: Far fetched? Not for renowned robotics expert Kim Jong-Hwan. Professor Kim is best known for creating the Federation of International Robot Soccer, where droids battle it out on the pitch. His latest project focuses not on the brawn, but on the brain: a robot with human qualities and feelings, with a design based on genetics.

KIM JONG-HWAN: Emotion means here happiness and angriness or fear and sadness.

MACDONALD Meet Rity, a cute puppy avatar who's a lot more complex than he appears. Kim calls it a 'Sobot,' or software robot. He's programmed with artificial chromosomes to create human personality traits.

KIM JONG-HWAN: This is the software robot in a virtual world. As you can see it has its own emotions. So right now it is quite sad.

MACDONALD: Like a genie in a lamp, he springs to life when stimulated. The software robot can even move from machine to machine at will, or to the body of another 'bot. He shows 77 different behavior patterns, more than you can say for one of his conventional cousins.

This robot may act like a real dog, but a Sobot takes it one step further. It's actually trained to recognize his master. All I have to do is turn to this camera and in an instant, he knows exactly who I am. And pretty soon, he won't leave me alone. A human-like robot may seem downright creepy, but Kim says its applications are for good instead of evil.

KIM JONG-HWAN: If the robot has its own personality, it can have better interactions with the robots.

MACDONALD: And just like a real person, sometimes Sobots just want to be left alone. James MacDonald, CNN, Daejeon, South Korea.

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Before We Go

CHA: Before we go, a decision to bag plastic. They make a handy carrier for your groceries and help you tote home your newest purchases. But plastic bags do something else: pile up! So one British town is putting a wrap on plastic bags and offering paper and cloth carriers instead. And they're not alone. San Francisco banned the plastic bag last month and parts of South Africa, Ireland and Taiwan all have laws against it.

Goodbye

CHA: And that puts today's show in the bag. We'll see you tomorrow for more CNN Student News. Thanks for watching. I'm Virginia Cha.