The nation's constitutional court has taken a first step toward throwing the ruling AK party out of office.
What prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya proposes in his bid for the history books is that the constitutional court close Turkey's ruling AK Party and thus remove a duly elected government. He also wants the court to ban Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul from politics for five years, along with 69 AK Party grandees. He charges that AK, which wants to remove a ban on headscarves, is "a focal point of antisecular activity." [and thus unconstitutional]
Caution - other than the part I posted, the article is a huge (liberal) Newsweek spin article condemning the court for acting - the Author is a typical lefty statist from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
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