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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Turks losing faith in Ankara - - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

"Turks losing faith in Ankara

By Tulin Daloglu
March 25, 2008

The people's faith in the rule of law has been jeopardized. Two recent developments have been dangerously tied.

On one side, Turkey's chief prosecutor has filed a case against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Constitutional Court, alleging that it is fomenting anti-secular activities and asserting that it should be banned from politics. On the other side, a large-scale police investigation has been going on for nearly 10 months in an attempt to expose Ergenekon, an ultra-nationalist gang accused of inciting anti-democratic activities and seeking to engineer a coup against the country's Islamist-rooted government."

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