Turkey's chief prosecutor has appeared before the country's constitutional court calling for the governing AK party to be closed down.
Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya has accused the party founded by Turkish Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of trying to establish an Islamic state. Critics of the AKP see the party's attempt to ease the ban on the Turkish PM wants court to explain headscarf ban ...
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Turkish turmoil ... wearing of the Islamic headscarf as evidence of a move away from Turkey's secular state. Yalcinkaya has also called 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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