Turkey's chief prosecutor has appeared before the country's constitutional court calling for the governing AK party to be closed down, accusing it of trying to establish an Islamic state. The party was founded by Turkish Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erdogan and won a landslide victory at the last election.
Critics of the AKP say it is threatening Turkey's secular state, calling on the party's attempt to ease the ban on the wearing of the Islamic headscarf as evidence. Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya is also calling for Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul to be banned from party membership for five years. European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said that the dispute should be settled at the ballot box and not in court, saying Turkey could be in breach of European Union democracy criteria.
(Deutsche Welle)
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