"Turkey's secular constitution
See you in court
Mar 19th 2008 | ANKARA
From The Economist print edition
A state prosecutor wants to ban the ruling party
AP Hands off our mildly Islamist party
AUTOCRATIC regimes in the Muslim world often ban religious parties, which then go underground and turn violent. Turkey's Islamists have taken a different path. Despite being repeatedly outlawed and ejected from power, pious politicians have shunned violence, embraced democracy and moved into the mainstream. No Islamic party has been as moderate and pro-Western as the Justice and Development (AK) party, which catapulted into government in 2002 promising to lead Turkey into the European Union."
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